North America - Interesting Facts. Why Are Tornadoes So Prevalent In North America? 

Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend far enough west that they're in the Eastern Hemisphere, making Alaska the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost State

As an earth and space science teacher, this video hits so many vocabulary words and lessons taught throughout the school year and summarizes it into a lovely video. Great tool to help student learn about their own back yard and see how all of these processes add up what we have today. Great Job!

I need one of these videos for every continent now!

North America was not unknown. The native American people were here!!

Beautiful video!!! Thank you!

Excellent. Thank you!

Thank you very much from those of us who use feet, yards, miles, etc., and not kilometers ETC like me who were taught that in school. I am now 87 years old, I was born on January 3rd, 1937. 👵🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛Me, Teo, and TwoTwo my cats!

Excellent. Great information. And thankyou for giving meters and feet. No one else does that.

Love the video but how do you do a whole segment on volcanos and not even mention Mt St Helens?

Thank you for sharing, much appreciated 💖

Amazing Review!!!!

no mention of big cats?! puma, lynx, bobcat

Unknown to the Europeans, but it was totally inhabbited so Columbus didn't "discover" anything.

I truly love documentaries like this. Please don't ever stop making them ! ❤️‍🔥

Nicely done and presented. Outstanding footages, excellent narration. My huuuuge like is all yours, free of charge. I learned all these facts at a small rural school in Belarus, of which I am pretty sure the majority of you have no clue, notwithstanding the fact that the country is in the geographical middle of Europe. 😊

Again, some fascinating information. 😮

4:30 mark... a point of fact. The Arbuckle Mts of southern Oklahoma are older than the Appalachians. They're so ancient and heavily eroded that even some people who live here don't realize these hills were once giant mountains.

Why did you leave out the Pecan tree, in your list of trees. They cover a large area of the Southeast!!!

wow no Lake Winnipeg, Great Slave Lake, Great Bear Lake and Georgian Bay and Niagara Falls is split between Canada and the US not just the US

Most tornadoes in the world are in the Midwest of the USA. I’m not aware of super strong tornadoes in California.

That’s an interesting and well presented video. Thank you

From about 47:15, the commentary is honest, well-reasoned and fair. I appreciate the realization that we must alter our course if we want to leave a responsibly stewarded continent to the Americans of 2054, and 2084, of 2124, 2224, 2324 or even 2424! (If you don't get that sentence, it's not important. I just mean let's live with respect for the future). I definitely want to be remembered as a generation who saw the delayed ill effects of careless technologies, wasteful economies and a cavalier attitude toward this world's fabulous but finite resources. And North Americans can be an example--from the Panama Canal to the Plain of Abraham, from the smiles of San Salvador to the club Blues of old-town St. Louis, from pyramids of Yucatan to the shores of Labrador--we could become the "beacon continent," the world's lighthouse for living sustainably, but prosperously. We citizens of Canada and the Caribbean Nations, of Central America and Mexico and of "El Norte" itself, the United States, have lived largely in peace, by living cooperatively, for over a century. If only we add "sustainably" to "cooperatively," we could lead a world refreshed and heartened by good will, one restored for good by willing hearts.

It’s insulting that he said that the Niagara Falls was in the US. Everyone here knows that it splits the border AND the best half of the falls is on the Canadian side.

Nice video in geography

Thank you!

Did he keep saying carnivorous when he meant to say cuneiform?? or have I been lucky not to have eatn up by one of those trees.? had to come back and edit. I enjoyed this very much. Thank you for time you took and effort.

First off Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything and never stepped on North America and didn't see it. I thought everyone knew this by now '

U forgot about the Pecan trees in the Southern States along with with Cedar trees

At 19:18, please check a definition. How can the Great Basin be the largest "plateau" ? A basin is the opposite of a plateau.

At around 5:30, this video states that plate tectonics caused the Bering Land Bridge to sink below the sea 11,000 years ago. Actually, this submergence, which did occur roughly 11,000 years ago, I believe, was caused by the melting of the Ice Sheets that covered much of Canada and Europe, primarily, at the end of the latest Ice Age.

Niagara Falls in the USA..sorry you lost me there. Horseshoe Falls is in Canada bud; u guys are too "USA-centric" for my taste

Yall some straight gangsters! Keep this s*** up love your videos!😁👍. Am i trippin or is the History channel logo on the bottom right.. good yall should be on the history channel.

5:40 mark.... it was a warming climate and sea level rise that separated Asia from Alaska, not tectonic forces. Eastern Siberia is part of North America's plate. Not 6 minutes in, and already 2 errors.

basically ignore everything after 47:12 as it has NOTHING to do with the natural features of any regions of North America. 'somebody' decided to insert some 'eco-friendly terminologies' and attack human impact on the Continent. but this was moderately counter-pointed with the non-specific mention (AND INCORRECT TIMELINES!) of conservation, reclamation, preservation, and education about ecological matters in North America.

6:22 The part about walking 2.4 miles in 15 minutes or less. That is a big old no, average person's walk speed is 3-4 miles per hour. I live almost exactly 2 miles from where I work & it takes me 45 minutes to walk there over very hilly terrain. If you were sprinting then perhaps it would be possible but you would have to be super fit for that to happen.

[RE: Devils Tower] "Particularly impressionable people." Hahahaha, that's one way of putting it.

Maybe I missed it but did he not mention one of the most common fauna in North America the trash panda 🦝.

Thanks

How can Cape Murchison be the most northern part of the mainland when its on Ellesmere island?

I loved how tornadoes destroyed so many square miles and formed coastal bars...

I hate to break it to you but even EF5 tornadoes only have wind speeds around 300 mph and not 800.

Uhm, can you explain how Greenland is "northwest of the mainland" as stated somewhere near the 11:00 mark? Otherwise, some good information. Caught an error at around the 39:00 minute mark when the narrator describes the base of a Sequoia Tree as "5 meters, or 65 feet". Just a bit off. NOT trying to detract from the excellent work, just pointing out some issues. It sort of tests my knowledge of what I may THINK I know...

By *Cordillera" in the Canadian Rockies, I assume you are referring to the Rocky Mountains. The word "Cordillera" is usually used to name the same range in SOUTH America. In Mexico it is usually called "Sierra." 😊

Corpus species, aka nutria, remind me so much of a diminutive version of capybara.

FYI, for Niagara Falls, the American and Bridal Veil falls are on the American side of Niagara Falls (NY state). The Horseshoe Falls are on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, Ontario.

At 9:30, you state that the northern most spot of the mainland of North America is Cape Murchison. Please look at your map. Cape Murchison is on an island -- far north of the mainland.

If and whenever the US education system returns to actually teaching the children properly. This video and others like it, should be made mandatory. It is amazing how many young adults are clueless of the topic of this program. Even political representatives are ignorant of this topic.

This video is almost as challenging as my 8th grade Earth Science class. Not surprised in a society where the highest grossing movie of the year is about a Barbie doll.

You mentioned the days at diomede islands in wrong order (one would go backwards in time if travelling from Russia to us and vice versa) ! Even though your video does actually display the days in correct order. Quite interesting video otherwise.

You didn't mention the mega caldera located in El Salvador

There’s a lot of confusion around the word “discovered.” In simple terms, to discover something is to find or see something for the first time. Whether or not it was the Vikings, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, or someone else who discovered it first will always be debated. To discover something does not nullify the fact that it did not exist before. It means that the subject had no prior knowledge of what they discovered. It does not negate the fact that there were, indeed, Indigenous and/or Native peoples inhabiting and thriving on their land.

Why did you not mention worlds tallest vertical cliff being in north america? Mount Thor in Baffin Island Canada. Lots of missing and important geological facts and not much mention of Mexican info. Canada also has a desert in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.

Columbus never set foot in North America. That fact, and his brutality toward all of the indigenous people unfortunate enough to see him/be in his way, is reason enough not to name anything for him...much less an entire continent. 🤬

The word "Extinct" not overly used here.

Using the Panama Canal for shipping does nothing to protect the United States or our allies. I would like to setup high speed rail from our Golf States to the ports of California and other points of industry where goods can be distributed throughout the country and other parts of the world from California.

Now I'm pining for the fjords!

Thanks for letting people know that North America is not just the U.S.A.

Maybe not now, but I think it’s on point ha ha he did discover North America.🤷‍♂️

The Devil's Tower is in the movie Close Encounters of the Thrid kind.

There was people living here aready it was known

This video has Way to many ads!! I've had enough and not finishing it. Hell I already know whats being said

well I’m pretty sure that Christofer Columbus DID NOT discover America. Infact I don’t believe he ever even touched land here in America.

At 5:23, please check current theories on migration of human beings to North America. Your comment about "on foot" is no longer the predominant theory.

Fun fact- I’m just an idiot born in ‘64 and I knew most of that from regular schooling. My daughter, a college graduate, knows nothing about anything.

Could you harvest the energy at Yellowstone in order to mitigate an eruption?

5:50 Sarah Palin paid for this bit😂

The grand canyon was not carved out by a river. The canyon and most of the landscape were gouged out and carved out by the ice age and ice sheets.

Say it with me now: APP-UH-LATCH-UN Mountains

Sorry but devils tower use to be a tree . i just want to know who cut it down .

You do know that Columbus never did get to America. He landed on the isle of Tortuga on north coast of Haiti. So, he really didn’t discover North American continent.

Is on planet Jupiter's selling space 🌌🚀 for Rocket fuil tanks?

WELL Done!😍

I will always teach and call Mt. McKinley it's real name, Mt. McKinley.

I was always taught that the Missouri was the longest river

North America was not a new country when Columbus accidentally bumped into it, millions of people were already here.

@2:00 Columbus didn’t discover America. How can you discover something that isn’t lost? Plus the Vikings were in North America 500 years before Columbus.

Actually Greenland belongs to Denmark from the start. But geologically it is part of NA, so eko, political it is European.

What did the Cheyenne call Devils Tower? Bear's Lodge The Cheyenne call Devils Tower "Bear's Lodge," "Bear's House," "Bear's Tipi," and "Bear Peak." The Cheyenne camped and hunted at Bear's Lodge in the winter and consider it a holy place.May 31, 2023

Just answering the title question: its an electrical phenomenon. We live in an Electric Universe. Probably has something to do with faults?

Most Eastern point in North America is cape spear Newfoundland

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Isn't Australia the largest island in the world.

About minute 23 in the video, you state that some view Devil's Tower to be a stump. What ??? Duh !!! Where did you get that one? Wouldn't Native American legends about the tower be more appropriate here?

Ummmm…. The St. Francois Mountains, in southeast Missouri, are three times as old as the Appalachians. They are over 1.5 to 1.8 billion years old. The Appalachians are 65 million years old.

Scotland shares the Appalachian mountains

"CONTEXT: CLIMATE CHANGES " thanks youtube

The highest tornado wind speed recorded on earth is 301 mph, +/- 20. I'd hate to see a supersonic 800 mph tornado 😂. Where did you check that fact?

Asking for support and approval before viewing the product isn't best business practice.

Why are the Caribbean islands considered north America?

This documentary should replace North America by United States... North America is not only one country aka the United States. Mexico, Canada and others are also in the North America. The Niagara Falls are also in Canada. Actually, the Horseshoe one is exclusively in Canada. In fact, the most spectacular view to appreciate them is on the Canadian side of the border. There's also the Saguenay fjord which should have been in this documentary as it is a rare "intracontinental" fjord and one of the 10 longer fjords on the planet. There's a lot of interesting facts in North America outside of the United States... There's also the Okanagan Desert which is not mentionned in the documentary. Also, the native americans, mayas and inuits were here way before the europeans came here. And the first europeans were... vikings!

Columbus didn't discover "America."

That's because all the energy and hot air were releasing into the atmosphere hot air as in BS

Okay, you lost me on the discovery of America. Imagine living in 2024 and not knowing America was inhabited long before Christopher or Americas .

134 degrees the hottest? In Oman, 140 degrees is the norm.

Wow there is a lot of information and pronunciations wrong in this video. Cool video but there is just so much wrong that it kinda overlooks the rest of it.

Canada, people are leaving it like crazy

So much inaccurate information.

That's an untruth to start in fact the statement was actually a confirmation of biblical prophecy that said the true meanings of lands worldwide would be falsely called after the names of land thieves such as Alberigo Vespucci mind you Alberigo not Amerigo.

That's not where the San Andreas fault is.

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