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Hace 2 días · This article treats the physical and human geography of North America. For discussion of individual countries of the continent, see the articles Canada, Mexico, and United States of America. See also coverage of North American regions under the titles West Indies and the individual countries of Central America.
- 30 to 2.5 Million Years Ago
North America - Glaciation, Migration, Megafauna: About 30...
- Agriculture
North America - Farming, Crops, Livestock: The various...
- The Warm Temperate Zone
North America - Climate, Geography, Wildlife: On the...
- The Boreal Forest
The Cordilleran forest lies between the Pacific coniferous...
- The Economy
North America - Economy, Trade, Resources: Few episodes in...
- The Canadian Shield
North America - Geology, Forests, Lakes: The Canadian Shield...
- Grassland, Desert, Tundra
North America - Grassland, Desert, Tundra: Soils in this...
- The African Heritage
North America - African Heritage, Culture, History: North...
- 30 to 2.5 Million Years Ago
Hace 4 días · Canada, the second largest country in the world in area, occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America. Despite Canada’s great size, it is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries. It has crafted what many consider to be a model multicultural society.
Hace 5 días · Actually composed of two regions, the Northwest Territory, or the Old Northwest, and the Great Plains, the Midwest has become more an idea than a region: an area of immense diversity but somehow consciously representative of a national average.
Hace 4 días · British Columbia is bordered to the west by the Pacific Ocean and the American state of Alaska, to the north by Yukon and the Northwest Territories, to the east by the province of Alberta, and to the south by the American states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Hace 1 día · Montana ( ⫽ mɒnˈtænə ⫽ ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [6] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.
Hace 2 días · As settlers expanded onto the Great Plains and the Western United States, the nomadic and semi-nomadic Indian tribes of those regions were forced to relocate to Indian reservations.
Hace 5 días · On the Plains of Abraham, the 47th occupied the center of Wolfe’s line and the Louisbourg Grenadiers stood with their general at its southern extremity. The 2/60th and 35th held Wolfe’s north and south flanks against continuous attacks by aggressive Canadian and Indigenous skirmishers, while the 48th formed a reserve line.
