The United States of America

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Ms. Hedstrom

Location

Places to see:• The Grand Canyon

-Located in Northern Arizona

• Mount Rushmore- Located in South Dakota

Location

• Capital Washington D.C.

• Neighbors:CanadaMexico

Location

• From Pittsville to Washington D.C.

777 miles E-SE

• They are 1 hour ahead in time.

Location

• Washington D.C. is located @38:54N 77:00W

• North America

       

Place

Plants:• Deciduous &

Coniferous forests- maple, oak, pine, & ect

• Grasslands• Desert scrub - cacti

• Animals:- several birds- wild cats & bears- wolves- deer & antelope- bison

Place

Religion:Religion:• 56%Protestantism• 25%Roman Catholicism• 2%Judaism• 17%Other, Islam,

Buddhism, and Hinduism

TraditionsTraditions• 4th of July fireworks• Presents at Christmas• Hiding Easter Eggs

Place

• American• Ethnicities:

- 80%White- 12%black- 3%Asian and Pacific Islanders- 5%Other including Native Americans and many other groups

• Languages: English,Spanish, and others make up 18%

Place

Physical features:• Rocky Mountains• Appalachian

Mountains• Great plains• Mississippi River• Death Valley

Place

• Size:3,717,769 sq. mi.

• Population: 300,000,000+

• Population Density:80.7 per sq. mi

Human/Environment Interaction

Resources:• Coal• Copper• Fishing• Gold• Hydroelectric power• Iron Ore• Natural gas• Petroleum• Silver• Zinc• Uranium

Human/Environment Interaction

Where do they live?• Along the Atlantic

Coast• In urban areas

Human/Environment Interaction

Why live there?• Jobs• Entertainment• Lifestyle• Historically resource

rich

                                                                

Human/Environment Interaction

Changes made:• Created dumps• Pollution• Built roads• Built railroads• Built cities• Mined • Put up windmills

Human/Environment Interaction

Land Usage:• Farming• Ranching• Forests • Manufacturing

Movement

Communication:

• Telephone - 268 million

• Cellular phone - 219.4 million

• Radio 4,789 AM,8,961 FM, 19 shortwave

• 2,218 TV stations

• 195,138,696 internet hosts- 205,326,680 users

Movement• Export:

– agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn)

– industrial supplies (organic chemicals)

– capital goods • (transistors, aircraft, motor

vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment)

– consumer goods (automobiles, medicines)

• Partners: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, UK

• $927.5 billion f.o.b.

Movement• Imports:

– agricultural products– industrial supplies (crude

oil)– capital goods

• (computers, telecommunications, vehicle parts, office & electric machinery)

– consumer goods (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys)

• Partners: Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany

• $1.727 trillion f.o.b.

Movement

How to get there:• 31 International

Airports- Washington D.C, Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, and L.A

• Ports: New York, Miami, L.A., Duluth, and more

Movement

Transportation:

• Railroads – 226,605 km

• Highways – 6,407,637 km

• Waterways – 19,312 km used for commerce

• Ports & harbors

• Airports – 14,858 5,119 are paved

• 149 heliports

Region

Government:• Federative Republic

• 50 states & 1 District

Region

Flag Description:-13 stripes of red & white- blue rectangle in upper hoist-side corner- 50 small, white, five-pointed stars- stars represent the 50 states- 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies- known as Old Glory;

Region• Climate:

-tropical rainforest-tropical savanna-steppe-desert-marine west coast-mediterranean-humid subtropical-humid continental-subarctic-tundra-highland

• 58ºF• 39” of precipitation

Region

• Occupations:– farming, forestry, and

fishing 0.7%– manufacturing, extraction,

transportation, and crafts 22.9%

– managerial, professional, and technical 34.7%

– sales and office 25.4%– other services 16.3%

• Currency: dollar

Region

Literacy rate:

total population: 99%

male: 99%

female: 99%

Life expectancy:

total population: 77.85 years

male: 75.02 years

female: 80.82 years