Americas Land

Americas Land. Learning Objectives for this video:

• Americas Land. Learn about The Land of America and travel across the United States to learn about the diversity of the land and the history behind its settlement.
• Explore the geography of the United States by way of its diverse and interdependent regions, grouped according to common landforms, climate, and natural resources.
• Examine key events in the history of the United States and gain insight to the nation's ethnic diversity and the values of American democracy.
• Locate principal geographical features of the United States, including the Mississippi River, the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes.
• Define basic terms such as geography, latitude, longitude, hemisphere, and meridian, and gain insight to how maps are used in the study of the world's geography.
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