1. Landforms and Resources:North America

2. North America. It’s here:

7. Relatively level

8. May have been hilly at one point, but glaciers leveled it out during the last ice age

9. Also carved out rolling hills and lakes

20. Did you know that during WWII, two small Aleutian islands at the tail end were captured and held by the Japanese?

27. Water

28. It’s got oceans or seas on four sides (Arctic, Atlantic, the Gulf, and Pacific) which is good for fishing and trade

31. It’s about 6 quadrillion gallons. That’s 6,000,000,000,000,000.

32. It’s enough to cover the lower 48 states with 9.5 feet of water.

39. North America has a very large river system in the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio

44. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold up to 180 billion barrels of oil, second only to Saudi Arabia’s 259 billion barrels.

45. The trick is profitably getting the oil out of the sands.