NORTH AMERICA

North America can be divided into four great regions (each of which contains many sub-regions): the Great Plains stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Arctic; the geologically young, mountainous west, including the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, California and Alaska; the raised but relatively flat plateau of the Canadian Shield in the northeast; and the varied eastern region, which includes the Appalachian Mountains, the coastal plain along the Atlantic seaboard, and the Florida peninsula. Mexico, with its long plateaus and cordilleras, falls largely in the western region, although the eastern coastal plain does extend south along the Gulf.

2. Open yoor book and find all the blue word in an America map.

3. Read the following text.

South America contains the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, the largest river (by volume), the Amazon River, the longest mountain range, the Andes, the driest desert, Atacama, the largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, the highest capital city, La Paz, Bolivia, the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, and the world's southernmost town, Puerto Toro, Chile.

4. Copy these questions into your notebook and answer them.

1) What are the boundaries of America?.

2) What is the largest river of the world?, Where is it?.

3) What is the highest capital city of the world?, Where is it?.

4) Why do you think this continent is called America?.

5) Copy in your notebook the underline words.

5. Click in at least 10 blue words and copy a sentence with that word into your notebook.

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