Ethnic Groups
Human Geography
Agriculture and fisheries
Six ethnic and racial categories:
- White American
- Black or African American
- Native American and Alaska Native
- Asian American
- Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander
- Middle Eastern American
- 47% of the land area of the United States is Farmland
- USA harvested 4,888,621 tonnes of fish from wild fisheries
- 323,749,999 inhabitants
- 82,5% of this population live in urban areas
- The top 5 cities more visited:
- New York
- Las Vegas
- Miami
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
The United States
- Known as the U.S
- It has 50 states
- Hawaii and Alaska
- It is the third largest country in the world
The United States of America
National Production
Natural Resources
- Manufacturing:
- Contributes $2.09 trillion directly to the economy
- World second largest manufacturer
- Energy:
- Key to the economy recovery
- Technological advancements in drilling and hydraulic fracturing
- U. S leads the world in wind energy production
- Nuclear energy: 100 nuclear reactors
- Foresty:
- management, cultivation, and harvesting of trees
- Agriculture:
- Subtropical zone: fruits, vegetables, cotton and tabacoo
- Intermediate climate zone: cotton and hemp
- Monoculture: Soil lose nutrients
Bouzas Victoria
Cachon Juliana
Colman Valentina
Segura Sofia
Weather and Climate
Natural Resources
- Drilling:
- U.S has a vast deposits of oil and natural gas
- Destroys forests and uses huge volumes of water from local rivers
- Global demand
- Mining:
- Dangerous industry
- Prodes millions of dollars and jobs
- Production of coal
- Negative impact on the environment
- The climate is not generally temperate.
- Tornadoes are common in the spring and summer months.
Physical geography
National Production
Transport and Communication
- Agriculture:
- One of the few that went well during the recession and recovery
- Exported a record of $152.5 billion of agricultural goods
- Variety in physical features
- The eastern coast is known as the coastal plains
- Appalachian Mountains
- The west of the Great Plains is the Cordillera
- It has several long rivers
- Air Transport: There are 15.000 airports in the United States.
- Railways: trains where the dominant mode of transportation until the mid-twentieth century.
- Roads: are the most popular kind of transport.
- Water Transport: This way of transport is largely used for freight.
- Healthcare:
- Brought $21.8 billion
- Fastest-growing industries
- Widespread trend
The United States of America
Geography