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Guam is III
Northern Mariana are IV
American Samoa are V

GUAM - III

It’s an island.
It’s 561 sq km large.
Its capitaly city is
Agana.

NORTHERN MARIANA
IV

It’s an archipelago of
15 islands.
Its capital city is
Saipan.

AMERICAN SAMOA - V

4 main islands.
It’s the
SOUTHERNMOST
territory in USA.
Its capital city is Pago
Pago.

Virgin Islands are I
Puerto Rico is II

VIRGIN ISLANDS - I

They’re 53 volcanic
islands.
They’re 386 sq km large.
Their capital city is
Charlotte Amalie.
Their products are rhum,
fish and sugar cane.
There are tropical forests.

PUERTO RICO - II

one big and other
small islands.
Its capital city is San
Juan.

HAWAII - 1
It’s an archipelago
of 8 major islands
and other atolls,
islets, sea mounts
in the Pacific
Ocean.
Big Island is 10432
sq km wide.
It’s one of US
States.

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS - 2
It’s a chain of 300 volcanic islands in the US State of Alaska.
Kodiak is the biggest with its 9293 sq km.

PADRE ISLAND - 3

It’s the longest
BARRIER island in
the world, with its
209 km.
It’s situated in the
Gulf of Mexico.

ISLE ROYALE - 4

It’s the biggest
island in LAKE
SUPERIOR.
It’s 534 sq km wide.

NANTUCKET - 5

It’s a summer
colony, south of
Cape Cod.

FLORIDA KEYS - 6

It’s a CHAIN of
1700 islands.
They begin from
Florida’s southern
tip.

WAIKIKI- 1
It’s in Honolulu, Oahu.
There are many hotels. You can surf here.
There’s an outdoor screen for FREE MOVIES on the beach.

SOUTH BEACH - 2
It’s in Miami.

DAYTONA BEACH - 3

You can DRIVE
there by car.

SANTA MONICA - 4

It’s a surfers’ and
skateboarders’
paradise.

MALIBU - 5

It’s near Los
Angeles.
It’s 34 km long.

MISSISSIPPI - 1
The largest river system (together with the Missouri, they flow
through 31 US States) in North America. It’s about 3734 km long.
It originates at Lake Itasca, MO and ends with a delta in the Gulf of
Mexico, below New Orleans, LA.

COLORADO - 2

It’s 2230 km long.
It flows from La
Poudre Pass Lake in
the Rocky
Mountains to the
Gulf of Mexico.
It forms the Grand
Canyon.

RIO GRANDE - 3

In Mexico it’s known as
“Rio Bravo del Norte”.
It’s 3034 km long, from
its source in Colorado
to its mouth in Texas.
It marks the
International Borders
between USA and
Mexico.

YUKON - 4
It’s 3187 km long,
from a glacier in
British Columbia
(Canada) to the
Bering Sea.
Its name means
“Great River”.
It’s known for the
presence of GOLD
(The Klondike Rush).

NIAGARA - 5
It’s 56 km long and joins Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
It forms part of the boundary between USA and Canada.
It forms the Niagara Falls too.

DELAWARE - 6
It’s 660 km long (8 km
longer than the Po).
It rises at Mt Jefferson,
NY and it empties in
Delaware Bay.
It flows through
Trenton and
Philadelphia and it
marks the border
between NJ and PA.

SAINT LAWRENCE - 7
It’s 1197 km long and
joins Lake Ontario
(its source) and the
Atlantic Ocean.
It forms part of the
boundary between
USA and Canada. It
flows through
Montréal in Canada.

They’re in Ontario (Canada) and 8 USA States.

LAKE SUPERIOR – 1 LAKE MICHIGAN – 2 LAKE ERIE - 4
It’s the biggest: 58.000 sq km 25.700 sq km
82.400 sq km!

LAKE HURON - 3 LAKE ONTARIO - 5
59.600 sq km 19.500 sq km

GREAT SALT LAKE - 6

It’s the largest salt
lake in the Western
hemisphere.
It is also called
America’s Dead Sea.
Millions of native
birds live here.

LAKE OAHE - 7

It’s a reservoir
(artificial lake) made
in the Missouri river
and stretching from
South Dakota to
North Dakota.

LAKE OKEECHOBEE - 8
It’s a fresh water
lake.
It’s also called the
“Big O”.

NIAGARA FALLS - 1
They’re formed in 3 drops by the Niagara river.
They’re very spectacular and massive, with their 100.000 cubic
meters of water in average every minute.

YOSEMITE FALLS - 2

They’re the highest in
North America.
They’re 739 meters high.
They’re in Sierra Nevada.

YELLOWSTONE FALLS - 3

They’re the largest in the
Rocky Mountains.

MULTNOMAH FALLS - 4

They’re formed by the
Columbia River.
They’re the highest in Oregon,
with their 189 meters.

HAVASU FALLS - 5

They’re 35 meters high and
you can find them in the
Grand Canyon.

CRABTREE FALLS - 6

They’re the highest in
Eastern USA, with
their 305 meters.

AMICALOLA FALLS - 7

Their name means
“Tumbling waters” in
Cherokee language.

Mc KINLEY – DEVALI - 1

It’s the highest in
USA and all North
America.
It’s 6194 meters
high.

Mt WHITNEY - 2

It’s the highest
in contiguous USA,
with its 4421 meters.
It’s in Sierra Nevada.

Mt ELBERT - 3
It’s the biggest and highest in the Rockies Range with its 4401
meters (Rocky Mountains are the longest range in USA).

Mt MITCHELL - 4
It’s the highest point in the Appalachian mountains, a huge
Eastern range from Alabama to Canada. It’s 2037 meters high.

Mt RUSHMORE - 5
It’s famous for its 18 meters high sculptures of 4 US
PRESIDENTS: Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Rooselt and
Lincoln. It’s 1745 mt high. It was carved from 1941 to 1972.

LECHUGUILLA - 1

It’s the deepest
in countiguous USA,
with its 490 meters.
It’s 250 km long.

MAMMOTH CAVE - 2

It’s 591 km long.
It was named after
foundings of several
mammoth skeletons.

KAZUMURA CAVE - 3
It’s the deepest and
longest lava tube in the
world: more than 1 km
deep and 65 km long.
It’s in Kilauea volcano,
on Hawaii Big Island.

HAWAII

There are
5 VOLCANOES
on BIG ISLAND .

MAUNA LOA - 1

“Long Mountain”
It’s the longest and
it’s 419 meters
high.

HUALALAI - 2

It’s 2521 meters high and
famous for the KONA
COFFEE.
There are coffee
plantations on its slopes.

MAUNA KEA - 3
It’s the highest in
Hawaii with its 4205
meters high.
It’s inactive: last
eruption was in 2460 BC.
Its name means “White
Mountain” and in
winter there’s snow on
its summit.

KILAUEA - 4

It’s the most active and
biggest volcano in
Hawaii.
Its last eruption was in
2007 and it’s 1247
meters high.
Its name means
“Smoky cloud
raising”.

Mt Saint HELENS - 5
It caused the deadliest and economically destructive
eruption in 1980. It’s in the Cascade Range in Washington
State. Its last eruption was in 2008 and it’s 2550 meters high.

BEFORE AFTER

LASSEN PEAK - 6

Its last eruption was in
1917. It’s 610 meters
high and it was created
on the destroyed flank
of another volcano:
Mount Tehama.

There were
58 NATIONAL PARKS
in USA in 2006.

DELAWARE is the only US
State without parks.

ARCHES - 1
Its highest
It’s famous for elevation is
2000 stone Elephant Butte,
arches 1723 meters
high.

GREAT SAND DUNES - 2

It’s the newest in
USA (2004).
It’s got the highest
sand dunes in North
America: they’re 230
meters high!

WATERTON GLACIER - 3
It’s an International PEACE Park,
situated between Montana (USA) and Alberta (Canada).

YELLOWSTONE - 4
It’s the oldest both in USA and in the world (1872).
It’s famous for its GEYSERS.
There live grizzly bears, bison, elks.

GRAND CANYON - 5
It’s a GORGE formed by the Colorado River.
It’s got the oldest rocks: 2 billion years old.
The park was established in 1919.

YOSEMITE - 6
It was established in 1890.
It comprehends the Sierra Nevada Range.

EVERGLADES - 7
It’s a wetland region and it’s like a slow-moving river,
flowing south-west 400 meters a day.
There are marshlands and subtropical forests with
mangroves, birds, panthers, alligators.

GREAT SMOKY MT - 8

It’s part of Cherokee
homeland.
It comprehends the
Appalachian Range.
It is visited by more
than 9 million
people each year.
It was established in
1932.

DEATH VALLEY - 9
It’s a desert region.
It is the lowest, driest and hottest point in USA:
It’s - 85.5 meters deep and in 1913 it was + 56.7° C!

There are 155 protected
National Forests in USA.

87 % of them are in the West,
i.e. west of Mississippi river.

TONGASS - 1

It’s the largest
forest, with its
6900 sq km.
It’s a temperate
rain forest.

OUACHITA - 2

It’s the oldest in
southern USA: it was
established in 1907.

VALLES CALDERA - 3
It’s a unique National Preserve.
It’s a volcanic caldera and it’s 19 km wide.

EL YUNQUE - 4

It’s a tropical forest in Puerto
Rico, protected by the Caribbean
National Forest.

SEQUOIA - 5

It’s in Sierra Nevada mountains
and it is populated by 39 giant
sequoia trees, the highest of
which rises up to 82 meters.
The forest is 4630 sq km large.

OLYMPIC - 6

It’s 2564 sq km
large and it is a
rain forest with
fjords and
peaks.

LAKE TAHOE Forest - 7

It’s 3527 sq km
large and it is
situated near
Lake Tahoe

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