North America

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North America
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Landforms

• Sierra Nevadas and Coastal Ranges (Cascades)
• Intermontane Basins and Plateaus
• Columbia Plateau
• Great Basin
• Colorado Plateau
• Rocky Mountains
• Central Lowlands (including Great Plains)
• Appalachian Mountains
• Piedmont
• Atlantic Seaboard
• Gulf Coast

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Plate Tectonics in North America
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• Glaciation Canadian Shield, the Midwest, and
  some of Northeast
• Weathering and Deposition Southern Great Plains
  and Southeast

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Major Rivers

• Mississippi/Missouri River 5th largest drainage
  basin
• Colorado River
• St. Lawrence River
• Columbia River

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Climate

• Continentality Tendency of areas remote from
  the ocean, especially in high and mid-latitudes,
  to have large annual and daily temperature
  ranges.

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Powerful Storms
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Sociocultural Issues

• Immigration Stages
• Great Britain and France
• Africa
• Western and Northern Europe
•  Southern Europe and Ireland
• Asian Countries
• Latin America and the Caribbean

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Immigration Issues

• What do we do about the cultural diversity
  stemming from massive immigration?
• Are new immigrants costing U.S. taxpayers too
  much money?
• Do immigrants take jobs away from U.S. citizens?
• Are too many immigrants being admitted to the
  U.S.?

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Population

• Canada - 31 million
• U.S. - 300 milliom
• Density - U.S. 74/m2 Canada 8/ m2

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• Fertility Rates
• Canada 1.5
• U.S. 2.0
• Doubling Time
• Canada 178 years
• U.S. 120 years

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There are obvious disparities in income between
racial and ethnic groups - why?
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Urbanization

• More than 80 of North Americans live in
  metropolitan areas!
• Brown fields
• Urban Sprawl (Suburban Sprawl)
• Megalopolis Boston to Washington, D.C. contains
  nearly 20 of U.S population

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