Download - The Five Regions
Geographic Perspective:
Standard 4.1: Identify regions in their immediate environment and describe their characteristics and boundaries.
Northeast
Southeast
Midwest
Southwest
West
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
The climate is different all over the northeast. Temperatures can be really warm in the summer and really cold in the winter
In parts of New York they receive over 100 inches of snow during the winter
In parts of New Jersey they get very little snowfall
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Major Landform in the Northeast
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Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia
The climate is hot and rainy especially in Southern Florida
Louisiana has the warmest temperatures during the summer
Kentucky has the coldest temperatures during the winter
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The Smoky Mountains Blue Ridge Mountains
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Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ohio South Dakota Wisconsin
The climate in the Midwest is fairly cold and dry during the winter months
It is very warm in the summer and there are many thunderstorms in the month of July
The further north you go in the Midwest, the colder the temperature tends to be.
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Mt. Rushmore The Bad Lands
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Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
The climate is very warm in the summer
The hottest temperatures occur in Southwest Arizona
The coldest temperatures occur in New Mexico
The Southwest gets very little rain
Most rainfall occurs in Oklahoma
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California
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Alaska
Hawaii
Oregon
Washington
Colorado
The west tends to have a lot of rainfall especially in Northern California and Washington State
The hottest temperatures occur in California and Hawaii
The coldest temperatures occur in Alaska
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The Rocky Mountains The Great Basin
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