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QUESTION4. State the geographical location of the continent of North America. gibe example.


QUESTION5. Name the physical divisions of North America.


QUESTION6.Explain the following terms:

(a) The Canadian Shield.

(b) Permafrost

(c) Cordilleras


QUESTION7.Where is Old Faithful Geyser located in North America?


QUESTION8.What do you mean by inter-montane plateau? Name any two from North America.


QUESTION9. Name any two gulfs along the coastline of North America.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ans No. 4 - North America, the third-largest continent, extends from the tiny Aleutian Islands in the northwest to the Isthmus of Panama in the south. The continent includes the enormous island of Greenland in the northeast and the small island countries and territories that dot the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean

Ans No. 5 - mountainous west, the Great Plains, the Canadian Shield, the varied eastern region, and the Caribbean.

Ans No. 6 -

The Canadian Shield - Canadian Shield, one of the world’s largest geologic continental shields, centered on Hudson Bay and extending for 8 million square km (3 million square miles) over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada from the Great Lakes to the Canadian Arctic and into Greenland, with small extensions into northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York, U.S.

Permafrost - a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains below freezing point throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions.

Cordilleras - a system or group of parallel mountain ranges together with the intervening plateau and other features, especially in the Andes or the Rockies

Ans No. 7 - Yellowstone National Park

Ans No. 8 - A plateau which is enclosed or surrounded by mountain ranges is known as an intermontane plateau. The Plateau of Tibet and the Plateau of Mongolia are the two intermontane plateaus in Asia. The Plateau of Tibet is surrounded by the Kunlun Mountains in the north and the Himalayas in the south

Ans No. 9 - Costa Rica. Coronado Bay. Gulf of Dulce. Gulf of Nicoya.

Cuba. Guantánamo Bay. Gulf of Mexico.

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