Answer the questions. 1. What is the territory of the USA?

1. What is the territory of the USA?

2. Where is the country situated?

3. What is the population of the USA?

4. What are the Great Lakes? Where are they situated?

5. What is the longest river in the USA?

Read and remember the origin of names of some American states.

Alabama

Origin is not fully elucidated. It is believed that this word comes from the Indian language and means “City of the tribe”

Alaska

Means “great land” or “peninsula”
Arizona

Spanish word which means “the one that carries silver”.

Arkansas

French version of the Sioux word “Acansa”, which means “the place downstream”

California

Comes from the Spanish conquistadors. Adapted from the novel 1510 which describes the paradise island with the same name.

Colorado

It is based on the Spanish phrase “colored red”.

Connecticut

Comes from the Indian “in a large turbulent river”.

Delaware

Named after Sir Thomas West (Lord De La Warr), governor of Virginia, 1610.
Florida

Named by the Spanish on Easter Day 1513. The name means “Flower Easter”.

Georgia

Named after the British King George II

Hawaii

Comes from the local word Owhyhee, which means Motherland.
Idaho

In the language of the local Indians – “gemstone of the mountains”.

Illinois

The French version of the Indian word that means “warriors” or “tribe of the best people”