Write today’s information in the RIGHT COLUMN of your Cornell Notebook.

Intro to North America

1.North America has 528,720,588

people.

2. It spans 5,400 miles north to

south.

3. Its countries & territories include:BermudaCanada

Clipperton IslandGreenland (the world’s

largest island)Saint Pierre & Miquelon

United States of AmericaUnited States of Mexico

4. There are 5 Great Lakes: 

a. Huron is 23,000 square miles/750 feet deep.

 b. Ontario is 7,340 square miles/802 feet

deep. 

c. Michigan is 22,300 square miles/925 feet deep.

 d. Erie is 9,910 square miles/210 feet deep.

 e. Superior is 31,700 square miles/1,332 feet

deep.

5. Lake Michigan is named from the Algonquin Indian word ‘michigami’, which means ‘big lake’.

6. Energy in the United States of America

Petroleum/oil: 37.1%

Natural Gas: 23.8%

Coal: 22.5%

Nuclear: 8.5%

Renewable (wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydro): 7.3%

NORTHEAST Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

New York

Rhode Island

Vermont 

Farming; manufacturing

MID-ATLANTIC 

Delaware

Maryland

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

West Virginia

Washington, D.C. (the nation’s capital; this is a district, NOT a state!!!)

 Oil; steel; coal

SOUTH AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgia

KentuckyLouisianaMississippi

North CarolinaSouth Carolina

TennesseeVirginia

 Warm & humid; cotton, sugarcane;

rice; manufacturing; tourism

MIDWEST 

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Ohio

Wisconsin 

Farming; manufacturing

GREAT PLAINS 

Kansas

Nebraska

North Dakota

South Dakota 

Flat, though elevated; wheat;

beef cattle

SOUTHWEST 

Arizona

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Texas  

Warm & sunny; lack of water

ROCKY MOUNTAINS 

Colorado

Idaho

Montana

Nevada

Utah

Wyoming 

Rugged terrain is difficult to traverse.

PACIFIC 

Alaska

California

Hawaii

Oregon

Washington  

Farming; communications;

technology

HOMEWORK

Write questions for today’s information in the LEFT COLUMN

of your Cornell Notebook. These will help you to review, so imagine you’re writing a quiz on

N. America.