General Characteristics and symbols
The Relief of the Country
Climate
Natural Recourses
National Parks
Old Glory
Stars and Stripes
Star-Spangled Banner
13 horizontal lines (original colonies)
50 stars (states)
Red – hardiness (выносливость) and valor ( доблесть )
White – purity ( чистота ) and innocence ( невинность )
Blue vigilance ( бдительность ) and perseverance ( упорство ), and justice
Vegetation and grasslands (east)
Prairies, forests, and the Rockies (west)
Deserts (southwest)
The Appalachian mountains separate the eastern seaboard from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Basin.
5 Great Lakes (the north central part) form the border with Canada
The Southwest – subtropical forests and mangrove forests
The Mississippi Basin, The Ohio and The Tennessee Rivers – to the west of the Appalachians
Grand Canyon, Arches, Bryce Canyon
The Cascade Range, the Sierra Nevada, Mount Whitney (4,421m)
“General” – temperate ( умеренный )
Florida and Hawaii – tropical
Alaska – arctic
The Great Basin – arid ( засушливый )
The Great Plains – semi-arid ( полузасушливый )
57 C (California’s Death Valley)
-62 C (Alaska)
Petroleum (2 nd after Saudi Arabia)
Natural gas (2 nd after Russia)
Coal (2 nd after China)
Clay, copper, gold, granite, iron, ore, limestone, salt, sand, zinc, timber.