America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who established the revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were in fact not part of India but part of a separate continent.

North America sits mostly on the North American plate but small parts like the Caribbean, Central America, and Hawaii are on different plates. The plates include... The Carribean plate the Cocos plate and the Pacific plate.

North America has always had the form it has today but only 1.5 billion years ago the Americas collided finishing the process up until today.

North America arived at its current spot about 1.0 billion years ago.

The 38 countrys

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Navassa Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, US Virgin Islands

Some animals that originated in North America are these animals include...