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

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