coastal plain “crazy”
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The Eight Geographic Regions of North America “Crazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking Cookies Carefully”. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”. located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”. (Massachusettes ). Farmland. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”located along the located along the
Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of and Gulf of
MexicoMexicoBroad Broad
lowland lowland providing many providing many excellent excellent harborsharbors
COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”
(Massachusettes)
Farmland
Coastal Plain ( What word represents Coastal Plain?)
Inlets, Harbors, Bays, Rivers, and Beaches
Eastern Coastal Plain
Texas GulfCoastal Plain
Coastal PlainEverglades National Park
Appalachian Highlands/Mountains“Apes”
Old eroded Old eroded mountainsmountains
Oldest mountain Oldest mountain range in North range in North AmericaAmerica
Located west of Located west of the Coastal Plain the Coastal Plain extending from extending from eastern Canada to eastern Canada to western Alabama; western Alabama; Includes the Includes the PiedmontPiedmont
Appalachian Highlands (Mountains)
Appalachian Mountains (What word represents this region?)
Old eroded mountains
Interior Lowlands “In”Located west Located west
of the of the Appalachian Appalachian Mountains and Mountains and east of the east of the Great PlainsGreat Plains
Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys, and grassy hills
Interior Lowlands
Interior Lowlands
Great Plains “GREEN”Located west of
Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands
Great Plains “GREEN”
Great Plains “GREEN”
Great Plains “GREEN”
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”Located west of Located west of
the Great Plains the Great Plains and east of the and east of the Basin and RangeBasin and Range
Rugged Rugged mountains mountains stretching from stretching from Alaska almost to Alaska almost to MexicoMexico; high ; high elevationselevations
Contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”
Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”
Basin and Range “Baking”Located west of
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
Basin and Ridge “BAKING”
Big Basin National Park, Nevada
Big Bend National Park, Texas
The Grand Canyon and Sedona
Images of Death Valley (Basin & Range)
Death Valley Dunes Badwater (Salt Pan) Lowest Point in the Western Hemisphere at - 282 feet (282 feet below sea level
Furnace Creek (Desert Oasis) Furnace Creek Golf Course
Images of Death Valley (Basin & Range)
Ubehebe Crater(vocanoes)
Ubehebe crater
Coastal Range “Cookies”Rugged
mountains along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada;
Contains fertile valleys
Coastal Range “Cookies”
Coastal Range “Cookies”
Coastal Range
Sierra Nevada Range Mount Olympus (viewed from Hurricane Ridge)
Cascade Range
Mount St. Helens
Coastal Range
Fertile Valleys of the Pacific Coast
Coastal Range “Cookies”
Pacific Coast
Yosemite National Park
Canadian Shield “Carefully”
wrappedwrapped around around the Hudson Bay in a the Hudson Bay in a Horseshoe shapeHorseshoe shape
Hills worn by Hills worn by erosionerosion and and hundreds of lakes hundreds of lakes carved by glacierscarved by glaciers
Holds some of the oldest rock formations in North America
Canadian Shield “Carefully”
Thousands of lakes formed by glaciers
Old rock formations
Canadian Shield “Carefully”
Canadian Shield
The frozen tundra of the Northern area of the Canadian Shield
A forest located in the middle of the Canadian Shield
Crazy A_ _ _ In _ _ _ _ _ Raincoats _ _ _ _ _ _ Cookies
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