1. Lucie Syrová

2. * General facts * Flag * Location on the map * Surface * Water

3. * the United States of America * federal constitutional republic * 50 states and a federal district * head of the country – president (Barack Obama) * population over 315,000,000 (including 11.2 million illegal immigrants) * nicknames – Pizza, Melting pot

4. * 13 horizontal stripes of red alternating with white = 13 British colonies → the first states in the Union * blue rectangle bearing 50 white stars = 50 states of the USA * nicknamed "Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory" and "The Star-Spangled Banner"

5. * central North America * 48 states and Washington, D.C. lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Gulf of Mexico in the south * Alaska in the northwest of the continent * the state of Hawaii - an archipelago in the mid-Pacific * bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south

6. * very diverse * the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada in the west * the coastal plains and the Appalachian Mountains in the east * central area mostly plains (the Great Plains) * deserts – e.g. the Mojave * the highest peak – Mount McKinley (Alaska, 6,194m) * the lowest point – Death Valley (California, 86m below sea level)

7. * the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system drains the Great Plains * the Rio Grande – border with Mexico * the Great Lakes – border with Canada, the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth

8. * Flag of the United States. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_flaghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_flag * United States. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01- 05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa

9. * ZSCOUT370. Flag of the United States. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States. svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States. svg * MISSMJ. Map of USA with state names. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_na mes.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_na mes.svg * E PLURIBUS. USA-satellite. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013- 01-05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA- satellite.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA- satellite.jpg * BEYOND MY KEN. Great Lakes from space crop labeled. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Lakes_from_space_crop_lab eled.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Lakes_from_space_crop_lab eled.jpg