New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . eat Basin. None ofthe streams of this region go to the sea. Name tlie largest lake. What city is near it? Sketcha map of the United States, show the Mississippi, theMissouri, the Ohio, the St. Lawrence, the Columbia, andthe Colorado Rivers. Heat and Rainfall. Most of the winds that blow vv lhp X^nitpdStates and Southern Can-ada come from the , and south. Tlicwestern -wands cross tlieCascade Mountains and theSierra Nevada, and arecooled so much that mostof their moisture falls onthe western slopes of theseranges. Bey
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . eat Basin. None ofthe streams of this region go to the sea. Name tlie largest lake. What city is near it? Sketcha map of the United States, show the Mississippi, theMissouri, the Ohio, the St. Lawrence, the Columbia, andthe Colorado Rivers. Heat and Rainfall. Most of the winds that blow vv lhp X^nitpdStates and Southern Can-ada come from the , and south. Tlicwestern -wands cross tlieCascade Mountains and theSierra Nevada, and arecooled so much that mostof their moisture falls onthe western slopes of theseranges. Beyond this they ,1 , ,.,„, (-„,.., Winter in the North. sweep over the western highlands as dry winds, and thus much of that regionis so dry that few trees or food plants will grow, andthese arid districts are partly desert. The eastern halfof the United States is well watered and makes oneof the best farming regions in the world. Much rain falls along the gulf coast, but the north-ern, part of the Mississippi valley has less rain, andcrops are less Sections of the United States. We can study this country in five gre;sections or divisions. (1) The Northern Section, which includetwenty food-producing States. Find New York, New Jersey, Delaware, PeniisylvaniMaryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Oliio, Kentucky, Idiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowMissouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Nori Dakota. (2) The Northe.\stern Section, whic includes six manufacturing States. Find Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachsetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. (3) The Southern Section gi-ows cottoi and contains eleven States. Find North Carolina, South Carolina, GeorgiFlorida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, ArkansaLouisiana, , and Oklahoma. (4) The Western Plateau Section, matup of eight States. Find M(mtana, Idalio, Wyoming, Colorado, UtaNevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. (5) The Pacific Section, the western farminand fruit section, contains three States
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