Chapter 5 Section 1
1. The river systems and landforms of the United States and Canada have played important roles in development. River and lake systems gave abundant water supply to the cities and other regions. It also provided as a source of power. Landforms played the roles of natural beauty, adventure, and attracted tourists. The mountains, like the Rockies, gave headwaters and some other natural minerals.
2. A few of the major geographical factors that have played an important part of of the economic development consist of: Pacific Ranges, Mississippi River, Great Lakes, and the Canadian Plains. Some of the natural resources that have played an important part in economic development are called fossil fuels, minerals, and ample freshwater. The fossil fuels consist of- coal, petroleum, and natural gases. These natural resources have helped increase the speed of industrialization of North America.
Chapter 5 Section 2
1. The climate regions that are found in the United States and Canada include: wet and dry seasons in the south, harsh cold of high-latitude regions, changing seasons in the central regions, and the cool, moist climates of the pacific coast.
2. Three of the weather-related hazards found in the United States and Canada are supercells, hurricanes and blizzards. Supercells are violent thunderstorms in the great plains during spring and summer. Hurricanes are summer-fall ocean storms that can be experienced in regional ocean coastlines. In the majority of Northern America, during the winter, you can encounter blizzards, winds that blow 35 miles an hour or greater!
Creative Writings-
1. If I was in an airplane looking down out of the window at the physical features of North America, while flying from Norfolk, Virginia to Seattle, Washington I would be able to see: the mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, forests, and deserts. I would be able to see these things because I would be low enough to have a view of the earth's surface. I would see: the Rockies, the Appalachian mountains, the Missouri river, the Colorado river, and maybe the great Salt Lake of Utah.
2. Two cities at about the same latitude such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Salt Lake City,Utah have widely different climates. They have different climates because Philadelphia is in the humid subtropical region. In the humid subtropical regions it tends to be hot and muggy in the summertime, mild in the fall and spring, but extremely cold in the winter. Salt Lake City is found in the semi-arid steppe region in which summer is very hot and winter is cold. Along with short transition seasons, of spring and fall are the "rainy seasons".
