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A large inland Sea
North America´s lowest point
Hudson Bay
The Death Valley
The Italian explorer who sailed west from Spain and landed on an island in the West Indies in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
An Italian adventurer who ventured to suggest that the land Columbus had discovered was a “New World.” For this insight, a German mapmaker proposed that the newly discovered land be named for Vespucci, and the New World became known as America.
Amerigo Vespucci
Three of the World´s four oceans surround the American Continent
The Arctic, the Atlantic, and the Pacific.
The world´s largest gulf
The river which flows southwest through the Grand Canyon - The world´s largest canyon
The Gulf of Mexico
The Colorado River
It is a narrow strip of land that once connected North and South America
It cuts through the Isthmus of Panama providing passage for ships traveling between the Atlantic and the Pacific
The Isthmus of Panama
The Panama Canal
The five Great Lakes
Other 2 important lakes (both feed the Mackenzie River)
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario
The Great Bear and the Great Slave
It separates Asia from North America today
The Bering Strait
Who mistakenly called the Native Americans "Indians"?
Columbus and other European explorers.
What types of shelters did the Native Americans live in?
They lived in tepees made of animal skins, others in wigwams or lodges of wood and bark, and others in apartments of adobe (mud bricks).
What were some ways Native Americans survived?
The Native Americans lived off the land, hunting, gathering, farming, and herding for their livelihood.
Which Native American civilization built a great empire in modern Mexico?
The Aztecs
Why was progress limited for the Aztecs and Maya?
Because of superstition and nature worship.
What are the three most influential and powerful countries in North America?
Canada, the United States, and Mexico
What is the majority ethnic background of people living on the continent?
European descent
What languages do most people on the continent speak?
English, Spanish, or French.
What are the two main religions practiced by the majority of people on the American continent?
Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
The largest peninsula on the American Continent
Another large peninsula
Smaller peninsulas
Alaska
Labrador
Baja California, Florida, and the Yucatan Peninsula
These islands are located in the southeast between the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea. They are generally smaller and definitely much warmer than those in the Arctic, often supporting tropical rain forests.
The West Indies
A chain of mountains that stretches from Alaska to Central America. It occupies nearly 1/3 of the continent and includes the Pacific Coast ranges, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Madre ranges.
The North American Cordillera
By the turn of the 16th century, around the time of the Protestant Reformation, these 4 countries had begun to investigate America and to claim its uncharted regions.
Spain, England, Portugal, and France
Where did the first Americans probably come From?
How might these people have reached North America?
From Asia: Asian tribes migrated to this forgotten land soon after the dispersion of mankind from Babel.
Most likely by crossing a bridge of land between Russia and Alaska, these ancient ancestors of the people known today as Native Americans became the real discoverers of the “New World.”
The highest peaks of the American Continent
North America´s largest inland body of saltwater located in the Great Basin
Mount Mckinley and the Rocky Mountains
The Great Salt Lake
North America´s largest river
Greenland
The Mississippi River
A broad, flat region that rises slowly from an elevation of about 2,000 feet in the east to around 6,000 feet in the west. Covering more than 1 million square miles of land in the central United States and south central Canada, this vast grassland constitutes the world’s largest prairie
The Great Plains