CHAPTER 12

ROCKY MOUNTAINS

ROCKY MOUNTAINS 🌄

• They are both in United States And Canada
• Rising over 14,000 feet into the sky!
• You can find all kinds of animals...ex: Black Bears and Elk
• It measures approximately 3,000 miles
• Becuase it goes through so much area, it has all kinds of national parks

ST. LAWERANCE RIVER

FACTS 🌅

• The St. Lawrence River is one of the longest rivers in North America.
• The River is 250 feet at its deepest point.
• covers about 73,000 square miles
• is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.
• One of the Great Lakes

NIAGARA FALLS

FACTS 🌊

• Niagara Falls was the birthplace of commercial hydro-electric power
• Volume of water: 150,000 U.S.
• The flow of water was stopped completely over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam
• The firstperson to go over the Falls in a barrel survive was a 63 year old female schoolteacher.
• Height: 167 feet

GREAT LAKES

FACTS

• The Great Lakes are a group of large lakes in the upper midwest
• Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior
• There are at least 30,000 islands scattered throughout the Great Lakes.
• At least 170 species of fish inhabit the Great Lakes.
• Lake Superior is the largest of all the lakes.

MAP OF CANADA

CLIMATE

• Colder North
• Gets Warmer South
• Gets as Cold as -67
• Last ice age 20,000 years
• Have northern lights

RESOURCE

RESOURES

• Wood
• Black Bears
• All Kinds Of Animals
• Niagara Falls
• St. Lawrence River