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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-north-america-got-its-shape-peter-j-haproffNorth America didn’t always have its familiar shape, nor its famed...
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North America’s largest lake is Lake Superior, which stretches from Michigan in the United States to Ontario in Canada. The lake’s total length is 560 kilometers (350 mi), and its total area is 82,100 km² (31,700 sq mi). The volume of Lake Superior is 12,070 km³ (2,900 cu mi), and the maximum depth is 406 meters (1,332 ft).
Satellite Image of the North American Continent: This illustration is a composite satellite view of North America presented as an orthographic projection centered at 40 degrees north latitude and 95 degrees west longitude. It was created in 2002 as part of NASA's "Blue Marble" series. It is a reprojected and cropped portion of the most detailed ...
Introduction. North America is the third largest of the continents. It has an area of more than 9,300,000 square miles (24,100,000 square kilometers), which is more than 16 percent of the world’s land area. Canada, the United States, and Mexico make up the largest part of North America.
May 29, 2018 · Three hundred million years ago, North America sat on the equator, its vast inland sea surrounded by rain forests whose fossilized remains are the coal deposits of the eastern United States. Small mountain ranges rose out of the sea that covered the center of the continent in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.
北アメリカ （きたアメリカ、 英: North America 、 西: América del Norte 、 仏: Amérique du Nord ）または、 北米 （ほくべい）は、 北半球 にある大陸で、ほとんどが 西半球 に属している。. 北は 北極海 、東は 大西洋 、南東は 南アメリカ と カリブ海 、西と南は ...
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in North America by area. [1] The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Greenland, Mexico, and the United States. Canada is the largest country in North America and the Western Hemisphere. Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest country in North America ...
