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Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

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Page 1: Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges

Pacific ranges and lowlands

By: Molly Beck

Page 2: Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

Hawaii and Alaska

Wild and beautiful Alaska is home to majestic mountains and Mt. McKinley

rises 20,3200 feet above sea level

Mt. McKinley, Alaska

majestic mountains

Page 3: Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

Mt. Dental in Alaska

Mt. Dental

Page 4: Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

AlaskaAlaska has a very long coastline broken by many

inlets and bays north of the brooks range there is a wide coastal plain the southern coast has many

steep cliffs is the largest state of the United states

Page 5: Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

HawaiiHawaii is a state in the united states located on an archipelago in the central Pacific ocean southwest

of the continental united states of Japan and northeast of Australia it takes eight islands to

make Hawaii. The lush green islands of Hawaii are the visible tops of a chain of submerged volcanic mountains that stretch 3,100 miles from hawaiih

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Tundra and wonder lake Denali national park Alaska USA

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Rocky Mountains

The rocky mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometers (3,000miles) the ranges highest peak is Mount Elbert in Colorado at 14,440feet 94,401 meters above sea

level which are located immediately adjacent to the pacific coast

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Western plateaus, basin and ranges

Region that is part of the intermountain region in the USA and Mexico covering over

777,000sq km/3000,000sqmi within the USA the region occupies most of the state of

Nevada as well as parts of Utah the basin and ranges region lies between the

Columbia plateau (north) the Wasatch range and Columbia plateau (east) and the cascade range and sierra Nevada (west) and extend

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Pacific Ranges and Lowlands Near the Ecuadorian frontier the Andes

mountains divide into three distinct roughly parallel chains called cordilleras that extend northeastward almost to the Caribbean sea altitudes reach more than 5,700 meters and

mountains peaks are permanently covered with snow

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Alaska