North America Map Study

Rocky Mountains

Are a major mountain range in western North America. They stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Within the North American Cordillera, they are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west.

Appalachian Mountains

Are a system of mountains in eastern North America

Rio Grande

Begins in south-central Colorado in the United States and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it forms part of the Mexico-United States border. Depending on how it is measured, the river is the fourth- or fifth-longest river system in North America.

Canada

Biggest Country in North America by Land Mass

United States of America

Biggest Country in North America by Population

Victoria Island

Is a large island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth largest island in the world, and at 217,291 km2 (83,897 sq mi)1 in area, it is Canada's second largest island.

Kodiak Island

Is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world.

Labrador Peninsula

Is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the southeast.

Mexico City

Largest City in North America (20 million)

Lake Superior

Largest Fresh Water Lake in the World

Great Basin

Largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

Largest national park in the U.S.

Yellowstone National Park

Largest national park in the continental U.S.

Death Valley

Lowest point in North America

Mt. Katahdin

Maine, Appalachians , end of appalachain trail

North America

3rd Largest Continent in the World

Greater Antilles

A grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.

Hudson Bay

A large body of saltwater and part of the North Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Canada. On the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait. It drains a very large area, that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, and southeastern Nunavut, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. It's southern arm is called James Bay. It is the second-largest bay in the world (after the Bay of Bengal).

James Bay

A large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada.

Gulf of Honduras

A large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Cascade Mountains

A major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.

Beaufort Sea

A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands. The Mackenzie River empties into the Canadian part of the sea, west of Tuktoyaktuk, which is one of the few permanent settlements on the sea shores

Brooks Range

A mountain range in far northern North America stretching some 700 miles (1,100 km) from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory.

Sierra Nevada

A mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Basin and Range Province. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily in Nevada.

Sargasso Sea

A region of the North Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents, that together form a circulating ocean stream called a gyre. It is the only such oceanic region on Earth to which the term sea has been extended, all others being bound entirely or mostly by land. A distinctive body of water often found with its characteristic brown Sargassum seaweed and often calm blue water, it is very different from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean.

Alaska Range

A relatively narrow, 650-km-long (400 mi) mountain range in the southcentral region of the U.S. state of Alaska, from Lake Clark at its southwest end[1] to the White River in Canada's Yukon Territory in the southeast. The highest mountain in North America, Denali, is in the range. It is part of the American Cordillera. The range is the highest in the world outside of Asia and the Andes.

Ohio River

A river that streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

Bering Strait

A strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north. It is located between Russia and the United States. The Strait has been the subject of the scientific hypothesis that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels - perhaps a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water - exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor, both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it. This view of how Paleo-Indians entered America has been the dominant one for several decades and continues to be the most accepted one.

Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt

A volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico. Several of its highest peaks have snow all year long, and during clear weather, they are visible to a large percentage of those who live on the many high plateaus from which these volcanoes rise.

Gulf of Alaska

An arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found.

Mt. Mckinley (Denali)

Alaska, in Alaska Range, North America's highest peak @ 20320ft is ?

Canadian Shield

Also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier canadien (French), is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (geological shield) that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continentlargest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

Mexican Plateau

Also known as the Mexican Altiplano, is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.

Hartsfield Jackson, Atlanta

Busiest airport in the world

Canada

Country with the highest number of lakes in the world

Adirondack Mountains

Form a massif in the northeast of Upstate New York in the United States.

Lake Mead

Formed by the Hoover Dam, is the largest reservoir in the United States, measured by water capacity. It is on the Colorado River about 24 mi (39 km) from the Las Vegas Strip southeast of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona.

Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic

How many oceans border North America

Mt Whitney

In California,located in Sierra Nevada, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 is?

Yucatan Peninsula

In southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.

Alexander Archipelago

Is a 300 miles (500 km) long archipelago, or group of islands, of North America off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, which are the tops of the submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean. Deep channels and fjords separate the islands and cut them off from the mainland. The northern part of the Inside Passage is sheltered by the islands as it winds its way among them.

Bay of Fundy

Is a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. The Bay is known for having the highest tidal range in the world. Rivaled by Ungava Bay in northern Quebec, King Sound in Western Australia, Gulf of Khambhat in India, and the Severn Estuary in the UK, it has one of the highest vertical tidal ranges in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records (1975) declared that Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world.

Gulf of California

Is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. It is bordered by the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa. Rivers which flow into the Gulf of California include the Colorado, Fuerte, Mayo, Sinaloa, Sonora, and the Yaqui. The Gulf is thought to be one of the most diverse seas on the planet, and is home to more than 5,000 species of micro-invertebrates.[2] Home to over a million people, Baja California is one of the longest peninsulas in the world, second only to the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

American Cordillera

Is a chain of mountain ranges that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America and Antarctica. It is also the backbone of the volcanic arc that forms the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Gulf of Panama

Is a gulf in the Pacific Ocean, near the southern coast of Panama.

Cape Farewell

Is a headland on the southern shore of Egger Island, Nunap Isua Archipelago, Greenland.As the southernmost point of the country, it is one of the important landmarks of Greenland.

St. Lawrence River

Is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. The river flows in a roughly north-easterly direction, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. It traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and is part of the international boundary between Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York. This river also provides the basis of the commercial Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Pacific Ring of Fire

Is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

Sierra Madre Oriental

Is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest-southeast through Eastern Mexico, and along the Gulf of Mexico.

Sierra Madre Occidental

Is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest-southeast through Northwestern and Western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.

Yukon River

Is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The source of the river is located in British Columbia, Canada. The lower half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is 3,190 kilometres (1,980 mi) long and empties into the Bering Sea.

Bering Sea

Is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean.Iis separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula. Is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by Russian Far East and Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects it to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea which separates the Alaska Peninsula from mainland Alaska.

Straits of Mackinac

Is a narrow waterway in the U.S. state of Michigan, between Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas.

Davis Strait

Is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island. To the north is Baffin Bay.

Alaska Peninsula

Is a peninsula extending about 800 km (497 mi) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. The peninsula separates the Pacific Ocean from Bristol Bay, an arm of the Bering Sea.

Baja California

Is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico. Its land mass separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California.

Nova Scotia Peninsula

Is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of North America in Canada. The peninsula is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada and is connected to the neighbouring province of New Brunswick through the Isthmus of Chignecto.

Caribbean Sea

Is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.

San Francisco Bay

Is a shallow estuary that drains water from approximately 40% of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains, passes through the bay to the Pacific Ocean.

Florida Strait

Is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.

Labrador Sea

Is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait. It contains one of the world's largest turbidity current channel systems, the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC), that runs for thousands of kilometers along the sea bottom toward the Atlantic Ocean. The Sea is a major source of the North Atlantic Deep Water, a cold water mass that flows at great depth along the western edge of the North Atlantic, spreading out to form the largest identifiable water mass in the World Ocean.

Vancouver Island

Is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Canada. It is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal, it was a major shipping route known simply as the Tehuantepec Route.

Gulf of Mexico

Is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas border it on the north, which are often referred to as the "Third Coast" in comparison with the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts, or sometimes the "south coast", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the "north coast."

Denmark Strait

Is an oceanic strait between Iceland (to its southeast) and Greenland (to its northwest). The Norwegian island of Jan Mayen lies northeast of the strait.

Lake Huron

Is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is shared on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States. It the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth after Superior, & Victoria (and the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea is counted as a lake)

Lake Ontario

Is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the American state of New York,

Prince of Wales Island

Is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle. It is the fourth-largest island in the United States (after Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico) and the 97th-largest island in the world.

Colorado River

Is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande). The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) River drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states. Starting in the central Rocky Mountains in the U.S., the river flows generally southwest across the Colorado Plateau and through the Grand Canyon before reaching Lake Mead on the Arizona-Nevada border, where it turns south toward the international border. After entering Mexico, the river approaches the mostly dry Delta at the tip of the Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora.

Ungava Peninsula

Is part of the Labrador Peninsula is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east. Is a part of the Canadian Shield and consists entirely of treeless tundra dissected by large numbers of rivers and glacial lakes, flowing generally east-west in a parallel fashion. The peninsula was not deglaciated until 6,500 years ago (11,500 years after the Last Glacial Maximum) and is believed to have been the prehistoric centre from which the vast Laurentide Ice Sheet spread over most of North America during the last glacial epoch.

Mississippi River

Is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent. Flowing entirely in the United States (although its drainage basin reaches into Canada), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for 2,320 miles (3,730 km)[11] to Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the river's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Bristol Bay

Is the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, in Southwest Alaska. A number of rivers flow into the bay, including the Cinder, Egegik, Igushik, Kvichak, Meshik, Nushagak, Naknek, Togiak, and Ugashik. Upper reaches of the Bay experience some of the highest tides in the world. One such reach, the Nushagak Bay near Dillingham and another near Naknek in Kvichak Bay have tidal extremes in excess of 10 m (30 ft), ranking them — and the area — as eighth highest in the world. This, coupled with the extreme number of shoals, sandbars and shallows, makes navigation troublesome, especially during the area's frequently strong winds. As the shallowest part of the Bering Sea, the Bay is one of the most dangerous areas for large vessels.

Lake Erie

Is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America. It's northern shore is bounded by the Canadian province of Ontario, with the U.S. states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York on its southern and easternmost shores and Michigan on the west.

Mackenzie River

Is the largest and longest river system in Canada, and is exceeded only by the Mississippi River system in North America. It flows through a vast, isolated region of forest and tundra entirely within the country's Yukon and Northwest Territories, although its many tributaries reach into four other Canadian provinces and territories. The river's mainstem runs 1,738 kilometres (1,080 mi) in a northerly direction to the Arctic Ocean, draining a vast area nearly the size of Indonesia. It is the largest river flowing into the Arctic from North America, and with its tributaries is one of the longest rivers in the world.

Baffin Island

Is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. To the south lies Hudson Strait, separating the Island from mainland Quebec. South of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait which separates the island from the Melville Peninsula on the mainland. To the east are Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, with Greenland beyond. The Foxe Basin,the Gulf of Boothia and Lancaster Sound separate the island Island from the rest of the archipelago to the west and north.

Lake Superior

Is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America. The lake is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the US state of Minnesota to the west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south. It is generally considered the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. It is the world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume and the largest by volume in North America.

Columbia River

Is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into the US state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.

Missouri River

Is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the river flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river takes drainage from a sparsely populated, semi-arid watershed of more than half a million square miles, which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world's fourth longest river system.

Gulf of St Lawrence

Is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the north by the Labrador Peninsula and Quebec, to the east by Saint-Pierre and Newfoundland, to the south by the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island, and to the west by the Gaspe Peninsula, New Brunswick, and Quebec. Half of the ten provinces of Canada adjoin the Gulf: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

Baffin Bay

Located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas.

Great Salt Lake

Located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric pluvial lake that once covered much of western Utah. The three major tributaries to the lake, the Jordan, Weber, and Bear rivers together deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in the lake each year. As it is endorheic (has no outlet besides evaporation), it has very high salinity, far saltier than seawater, which makes swimming similar to floating, and its mineral content is steadily increasing. Its shallow, warm waters cause frequent, sometimes heavy lake-effect snows from late fall through spring. It has been called "America's Dead Sea", the lake provides habitat for millions of native birds, brine shrimp, shorebirds, and waterfowl, including the largest staging population of Wilson's phalarope in the world.

Mackenzie-Slave-Peace-Finlay

Longest River in Canada (2637 miles / 4241 km)

Mississipi Missouri

Longest River in North America (3902 miles / 6275 km)

Americo Vespucci

Named after this Italian explorer

Mt. Washington

New Hamshire, Presidential mountain ranges, Highest in NE.,famous for the awful weather, strongest winds

Mt. Mitchell

North Carolina, Appalachian mountain ranges, Tallest east of Mississippi

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Number of countries in North America

Lake Michigan

One of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It the largest lake entirely within one country by surface area

St Kitts & Nevis

Smallest country in North America by Land Mass

Mount Mckinley

Tallest Mountain in North America

Mt Elbert

The highest peak in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Gulf of Darien

The southernmost region of the Caribbean Sea, located north and east of the border between Panama and Colombia.

Mt. St. Helens

Washington, Cascade mountain range. Erupted on its side in May 1980 and continues to erupt today. Killed 63 people, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, and disrupted people's lives hundreds of miles from the volcano.

Panama Canal

Waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan.

New York City

Where are the headquarters of United Nations (UN)

Greenland

World's largest island

Great Plains

World's largest prairie

United States Constitution

Worlds First Written Constitution

Lesser Antilles

a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most form a long, partly volcanic island arc between the Greater Antilles to the north-west and the continent of South America.[1] The islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. The islands are divided into three groups. The two main groups are the Windward Islands in the south and the Leeward Islands in the north. The Windward Islands are so called because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds blow east to west. The trans-Atlantic currents and winds that provided the fastest route across the ocean brought these ships to the rough dividing line between the Windward and Leeward Islands. The third group is the Leeward Antilles in the west.

Mt Rainier

is a massive stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle in the state of Washington. It is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list. Because of its large amount of glacial ice, it could potentially produce massive lahars that would threaten the whole Puyallup River valley. 14,410ft