1. United States And Canada
Physical Features
United States
And
Canada

2. United States

3. Just how big is America? 3.806 million mi² Ranking? 3rd

4. How did it form?
Glacial activity
Tectonic plate movement

5. Appalachain Mountains
Great Plains
Atlantic Coastal Plains
Rocky Mountains

6. WATER

7. Rivers, Lakes and Tributaries, Oh My!

8. Why are they so important?
Economic Development

9. Rivers- Three main Rivers
Mississippi River
Colorado River
Rio Grande

10. Lakes What makes the Great Lakes, so great? 95,160 square miles
6 quadrillion gallons
1/5 of the world Fresh water supply

12. What is a tributary? Tributary- Examples:
a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.
Examples:
Missouri River to the Mississippi River
San Juan River to the Colorado River

13. What does this say about climate?

14. What does this say about temperature:

15. Natural Resources: water, timber, fish, minerals, and fossil fuels
What are fossil fuels?
general term for buried combustible geologic deposits, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils

16. CANADA

17. Let's rank Canada? 3.855 million mi²
Is that bigger or smaller than the USA?

18. = Rocky Mountains
= Coast Mountains
= Canadian Shield

19. Canada Temperatures

20. Canada Sunlight and Rainfall

21. Water and electricity An abundance of natural resources Water

22. Water in many forms

23. Canada's water border
Canada has a large supply of fresh water through rivers and lakes.
St. Lawrence River
Works as a border between Canada and the US
Niagara Falls
Great Lakes

24. Climate and biomes Climate Biomes- Gulf Stream and Labrador Current
are regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants.

25. Natural resource
Fisheries
Timber
Energy
Minerals
Tar Sands
Petroleum