1. Answer in complete sentences.
What natural resources are available in the United States?
What natural resources are available in Canada?

2. United States and Canada

3. Quotes page 117 Vast lands Abundant resources Atlantic Coastal Plain
Appalachian Mountains
Great Plains
Canadian Shield
Rocky Mountains
Describe
Location
Landforms and size
Other important facts
resources

4. Partner read “Resources Shape Ways of Life” and take notes over what kinds of resources are in North America

5. In complete sentences, write the ways oceans, land and forests, and minerals can be used as resources.
Work on work you owe me or map when you finish.

6. Climates and Vegetation
Resources
Oceans
Land and forests
Minerals and fossil fuels (120)
Climates and Vegetation
Alaska and Canada
Maps (125)
Classify into colder, moderate, milder, dry, and tropical climates

7. Write a paragraph that compares the United States to Canada.

8. NONE of this requires talking!
In complete sentences, write three ways that the United States compares to Canada.
Work on your map or test corrections and turn those in if complete.

9. Effects of Extreme Weather
Discuss causes of a variety of climates in one area

10. Human Environment Interaction
Change over time
Settlement – nomads and adaptation
Agriculture – permanent settlement and altered landscape
Cities – landscape, climate, weather, natural resources
Montreal and Los Angeles
As people moved, they changed the environment
Overland trails, settlements, transportation
Canals – Erie Canal (NY and connects Great Lakes to Atlantic Ocean)
St. Lawrence Seaway (raises and lowers ships using locks)

11. Transcontinental railroads
Trains and railroads
US – world’s largest railroad system
Canada – second largest
Why does the US have the largest when it is only the third largest country in land size?
National Highway Systems
Car led to roads, not the other way around
US – 4 million miles – criss-cross over 46,000 miles
Canada – 560,000 miles (E to W in the southern part) – Trans-Canada Hwy – 4,860 miles

12. Highway Maps (131)