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- 2. The United States is a country in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of 48 contiguous states
- 3. The term "United States", when used in the geographical sense, means the continental United States, Alaska,
- 4. The country shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime (water) borders with Russia, Cuba,
- 5. Washed by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska - the
- 6. The United States of America The group of forty-eight states in the single region between Canada
- 7. The land area of Lower 48 is approximately 7,700,000 km2. Alaska is the largest state at
- 8. two harbor indented coasts well watered coastal plains two mountain ranges an arable plain interconnected and
- 9. The eastern United States the Atlantic and Gulf shores + the Florida peninsula Piedmont The Appalachian
- 10. The southeast United States subtropical forests mangrove wetlands in Florida. the Mississippi River with two tributaries,
- 11. The Great Plains agricultural part of the USA the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico the
- 12. Intermountain West the Cascade Range the Sierra Nevada the highest point - Mount Whitney (4,421 m).
- 13. CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY Continental Subtropical Tropical Semi-arid Arid Mediterranean Oceanic Subarctic or polar
- 14. Natural disasters drought - the Dust Bowl (1931–1942) – entire regions were virtually depopulated, and dust
- 15. The U.S. ecology is considered "megadiverse": 400 mammal 750 bird 500 reptile and amphibian species 91,000
- 16. NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM It includes all National Historical Parks/Sites, National Battlefields/Military Parks, National Memorials, and some
- 18. POLITICAL DIVISIONS The United States is a federal union of 50 states. The original thirteen states
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