America. Most North American people speak English, Spanish or French. The largest city in North America is Mexico city. North America occupies 4.8% of the total earths surface. North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. North America is the only continent that has every type of climate North America is a continent of enormous diversity, with vast mountain ranges, huge, flat, grassy plains, hot deserts, and frozen ice caps. In the south lie the tropical islands of the Caribbean and the rainforests of Central America. To the far north, a polar ice cap 2 miles (3 km) thick covers most of Greenland. Most North Americans live in the large cities on the east and west coasts. The Great Plains and deserts west of the Mississippi River are sparsely populated, as are the forests and frozen wastes of northern Canada and Alaska. .
The Longest river in North America is the Mississippi it is 3,740 miles. And the largest hugest country by population is untied states with 289 million people. North America was named after the Italian explorer named amerigo Vespucci. Italian explorer Christopher Columbus was the first European to navigate to North America in 1492. Approximately 50% of the worlds maize/corn are harvest or produced in North America. The best universities are located in North America. Niagara falls of North America is one of the most popular waterfalls in the world. Canada in North America has the highest number of lakes in the world. An American beaver is the largest beaver in North America. New York in North America is home to the headquarters of united nation organizations. North America is the home to the longest highway in the world.
Plate tectonics is the main force of nature responsible for the geologic history of North America. Over time, the plates have come together to form the continents, including North America. Other processes, such as sedimentation and erosion, modify the shape of the land that has been forged by plate tectonics. North America is the 3 rd largest of the worlds continents, lying for the most part between the arctic circle and tropic of cancer. It extends for more than 5,000 miles to within 500 miles of both the north pole and the equator and has an east-west extent of 5,000 miles. The clothes they wear in North America are made from deer skin or bark of the plants, most women wear dresses sewn out of deerskin and sometimes legging made out of cat skin. Most men wore legging and breechclouts made out of deerskin and when it was cold they wore deerskin robes. People also used jewelry as part of their clothing.