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North America SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ American West
p.14

North America stretches from the icy Arctic in the north ▸ ▸ Arctic p.25
to tropical Central America in the south. Huge areas of ▸ ▸ Aztecs p.35
grassland, called prairies, cover much of North America. ▸ ▸ Native Americans

There are also mountains, forests, deserts, and some p.179
of the world’s biggest lakes. ▸ ▸ South America
p.236

Alaskan
salmon

Grizzly bear
Inuit Polar bear
About drummers
North
America
Totem Beaver
pole
Yellowstone Rocky Wheat
Population: is on top of a Mountains Moose The moose is the
largest member
579 million huge volcano Canadian
known as a Mountie of the deer family.
supervolcano.
Highest point: Yellowstone
National
Denali Park Mount Statue of
Liberty
Rushmore The United
The White House States is home to
Lowest point: the remains of more
Badwater Basin Grand types of dinosaur
Hollywood Canyon Monarch than any other
butterfly Mississippi country.
River
Biggest desert: Kennedy
Great Basin Desert Space Center

Armadillo
Longest river:
Missouri
Every year, 14,000
ships pass through the
Pico de Panama Canal, which
Statue of Liberty Orizaba Baird’s links the Pacific and
This statue towers volcano tapir Atlantic oceans.
305 ft (93 m) over Panama
New York Harbor. Mississippi River Canal
Completed in 1886, The Mississippi is a huge river
it was a gift from the in North America. Ships use it
people of France for transporting goods, and
to the people tourists ride on its riverboats
of the US. called paddle steamers.

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