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

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that each continent of our planet is unique.
Because every continent has something that others don't. Be it climate, geography, flora or fauna.
Today, let's embark on a journey across an incredibly vibrant continent that combines two seemingly incongruous things - the most advanced civilization and the most beautiful nature.
You guessed it, we're talking about North America.
In this video, you will learn:
Why are tornadoes so prevalent in North America?
Is the Yellowstone supervolcano really that scary?
How did it happen that for a long time, the same animals have inhabited Eurasia and North America?
And how did a huge part of North America come to be occupied by... Europe?!
North America.

[sudannebanks]

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!

[themr_wilson]

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

[crystalmarker]

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

[rickchristman]

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

[julierideout]

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

[sudannebanks]

I need one of these videos for every continent now!

[mad-vwwf]

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 '

[reneebiberstein]

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

[altheacraig]

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!

[JamesCovington-WXJJC]

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.

[ronaldswihart]

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

[gregorybarton-qsqs]

Thank you for sharing, much appreciated 💖

[michaelguppy]

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

[jtlnatl]

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

[Istandby]

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

[TroyQwert]

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. 😊

[DZegers]

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

[Lifeinbelize]

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

[prototropo]

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.

[joeelliott]

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.