(英美国家概况课件）Unit 10 Land, People, and Natural Resources.ppt

The Mississippi River The Missouri River is the longest river in North America and a major waterway of the central United States. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.  The?Missouri River?   The Rio Grande and Colorado River  3. Forests Forestry, papermaking, and wood-product manufacturing are the most important industries of the Gulf Coastal Plain, just as forests are by far the most common land cover in the region. Southern pine species, such as the longleaf, loblolly, and slash pine varieties, are more resinous than their northern counterparts and were long exploited mainly for their oleoresins in the manufacture of turpentine, paint, tar, and gum. 4. Minerals Classes of Minerals There are two general classes of resources: renewable and non-renewable. The Appalachian Coal Field The Appalachian Coal Field produces nearly half of all bituminous coal mined in the United States. The coal field is practically coextensive with the Appalachian Plateau south of the limit of carboniferous rock formations along the Pennsylvania-New York border. Colorado Plateau Resources The Colorado Plateau is a region of multicolored sandstones, shales, and limestones and of high plateaus, deep canyons, and flat-topped mesas, stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the Wasatch Range. Coal, oil shale, and natural gas are found in the Colorado Plateau’s almost flat-lying sedimentary strata. The Colorado Plateau also is the major source of uranium in the United States. The largest steel mills of the Lower Great Lakes region The Iron and Steel Industry 10 types of classes: (1) elements, (2) sulfides, (3) halides, (4) oxides, (5) carbonates, (6) sulfates, (7) phosphates, (8) silicates, (9) organics, and (10) mineraloids. Minerals are nonrenewable The United States of America University of International Business and Economics Press Th