Sarah Duncan

Social Studies Specialist

Portsmouth Public Schools

•Located along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico

•Broad Lowlands providing many excellent harbors

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•Located west of the Coastal Plain

•Extends from Eastern Canada to western Alabama

•Old, eroded mountains

•Oldest Mountain Range in North America

•Includes the Piedmont

•Wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape

•Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes caused by glaciers

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http://csern.laurentian.ca/Canadian_Shield.htm

•Located west of the Appalachian Mountains and East of the Great Plains

•Rolling flat lands

•Contains many rivers, broad river valleys, and grassy hills

(Many rivers with broad river valleys)

Located west of the Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains

Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward

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•Located to the west of the Great Plains and East of the Basin and Range

•Rugged Mountains stretching from Alaska to Mexico

•High Elevations

•Contains the Continental Divide—which determines the directional flow of rivers

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Appalachian Mountains

Rocky Mountains

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http://www.elkfordcampground.com/

•Located West of the Rocky Mountains and East of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades

•Area of varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Notes/basin_and_range.html

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Death Valley

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http://www.itine-rari.it/immagini/Dante's%20View,%20Death%20Valley%20National%20Park,%20California.JPG

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•Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada

•Contains fertile valleys