USA

LOS ANGELES

• Los Angeles is the biggest city in California and the second largest in the USA.

• It is the centre of the American music and film industries.

• The climate is pleasant all year round and the beaches are always full of people.

The Rockies

• The Rockies is a mountain range that stretches from British Colombia in Canada to New Mexico in the USA.

• This is a distance of nearly 5000 km.• It has some of the best skiing resorts in

America. • People also go hiking here.

THE GREAT PLAINS

• The Great Plains is an enormous area to the east of the Rocky Mountains.

• This used to be homeland of the Great Plains indian tribes.

• There were many buffaloes here before the Europeans came.

• Nowadays a lot of wheat is grown on the Great Plains.

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT

• There are deserts in several parts of the United States.

• The largest is the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

• There are some Indian reservations in the desert.

FLORIDA

• The swamps and marshes of Florida are wetland areas.

• There are up to a million American alligators here.

GRAND CANYON

• The grand Canyon is 446 km long, 1,6 km deep and up to 29 km wide.

• Millions of tourists visit it every year.• The river in the canyon is very popular with

rafters.

WYOMING

• Wyoming is known as “ The Cowboy State”. • They have raised cattle here for more than

hundred years. • Many people wear blue jeans , boots and

Stetson hats in Wyoming.

MEXICANS

• Large areas of the south western part of the USA used to belong to Mexico.

• This is one reason why there are many people of Mexican origin in southern California.

INUITS

• About 16 per cent of the Alaskan population are native Inuits.

• Some of them still make a living in the traditional way by hunting and fishing.

• However , most people in Alaska now live in cities.

• In the old days they used to wear clothes made of sealskin and caribou skin.