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Write today’s information in the RIGHT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook.

Write today’s information in the RIGHT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook. Intro to North America. North America has 528,720,588 people. 2. It spans 5,400 miles north to south. 3. Its countries & territories include: Bermuda Canada Clipperton Island Greenland (the world’s largest island)

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Write today’s information in the RIGHT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook.

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  1. Write today’s information in the RIGHT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook.

  2. Intro to North America

  3. North America has 528,720,588 people. • 2. It spans 5,400 miles north to south.

  4. 3. Its countries & territories include: Bermuda Canada Clipperton Island Greenland (the world’s largest island) Saint Pierre & Miquelon United States of America United States of Mexico

  5. 4. There are 5 Great Lakes: a. Huron is 23,000 square miles/750 feet deep. b. Ontario is 7,340 square miles/802 feet deep. c. Michigan is 22,300 square miles/925 feet deep. d. Erie is 9,910 square miles/210 feet deep. e. Superior is 31,700 square miles/1,332 feet deep. 5. Lake Michigan is named from the Algonquin Indian word ‘michigami’, which means ‘big lake’.

  6. 6. Energy in the United States of America Petroleum/oil: 37.1% Natural Gas: 23.8% Coal: 22.5% Nuclear: 8.5% Renewable (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro): 7.3%

  7. NORTHEAST  Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Rhode Island Vermont Farming; manufacturing

  8. MID-ATLANTIC Delaware Maryland New Jersey Pennsylvania West Virginia Washington, D.C. (the nation’s capital; this is a district, NOT a state!!!) Oil; steel; coal

  9. SOUTH  Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Warm & humid; cotton, sugarcane; rice; manufacturing; tourism

  10. MIDWEST Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin Farming; manufacturing

  11. GREAT PLAINS Kansas Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Flat, though elevated; wheat; beef cattle

  12. SOUTHWEST Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Warm & sunny; lack of water

  13. ROCKY MOUNTAINS Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada Utah Wyoming Rugged terrain is difficult to traverse.

  14. PACIFIC Alaska California Hawaii Oregon Washington Farming; communications; technology

  15. HOMEWORK Write questions for today’s information in the LEFT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook. These will help you to review, so imagine you’re writing a quiz on N. America.

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