“By world standards, [North America] is a rich realm where high incomes and high rates of consumption prevail.” “North America is home to one of the world’s great manufacturing complexes.” “North America’s population…is the world’s most highly urbanized and mobile.” These are some of the comments on North America found in the textbook. Explain how the PHYSICAL geography and CULTURAL geography of the United States have made this development possible. The figures and maps in the textbook should be useful in answering this essay question.