Lecture 4
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.
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