Title: The Eight Geographic Regions of North America
1The Eight Geographic Regions of North
AmericaCrazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking
Cookies Carefully
2COASTAL PLAIN CRAZY
- located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of
Mexico - Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors
3COASTAL PLAIN CRAZY
(Massachusettes)
Farmland
4Coastal Plain ( What word represents Coastal
Plain?)
Inlets, Harbors, Bays, Rivers, and Beaches
5Eastern Coastal Plain
6Texas GulfCoastal Plain
7Coastal PlainEverglades National Park
8Appalachian Highlands/MountainsApes
- Old eroded mountains
- Oldest mountain range in North America
- Located west of the Coastal Plain extending from
eastern Canada to western Alabama Includes the
Piedmont -
9Appalachian Highlands (Mountains)
10Appalachian Mountains (What word represents this
region?)
Old eroded mountains
11Interior Lowlands In
- Located west of the Appalachian Mountains and
east of the Great Plains - Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river
valleys, and grassy hills
12Interior Lowlands
13Interior Lowlands
14Great Plains GREEN
- Located west of Interior Lowlands and east of the
Rocky Mountains -
- Flat land that gradually increases in elevation
westward grasslands
15Great Plains GREEN
16Great Plains GREEN
17Great Plains GREEN
18Rocky Mountains Raincoats
- Located west of the Great Plains and east of the
Basin and Range - Rugged mountains stretching from Alaska almost to
Mexico high elevations - Contains the Continental Divide, which determines
the directional flow of rivers
19Rocky Mountains Raincoats
20Rocky Mountains Raincoats
21Rocky Mountains Raincoats
22Rocky Mountains Raincoats
23Rocky Mountains Raincoats
24Basin 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
25Basin and Ridge BAKING
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Big Basin National Park, Nevada
26The Grand Canyon and Sedona
27Images of Death Valley (Basin Range)
Badwater (Salt Pan) Lowest Point in
the Western Hemisphere at - 282 feet (282 feet
below sea level
Death Valley Dunes
Furnace Creek (Desert Oasis)
Furnace Creek Golf Course
28Images of Death Valley (Basin Range)
Ubehebe crater
Ubehebe Crater (vocanoes)
29Coastal Range Cookies
- Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that
stretch from California to Canada - Contains fertile valleys
30Coastal Range Cookies
31Coastal Range Cookies
32Coastal Range
Sierra Nevada Range
Mount Olympus (viewed from Hurricane
Ridge)
Cascade Range
Mount St. Helens
33Coastal Range
Fertile Valleys of the Pacific
Coast
34Coastal Range Cookies
Pacific Coast
35Yosemite National Park
36Canadian Shield Carefully
- wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a Horseshoe
shape - Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes
carved by glaciers - Holds some of the oldest rock formations in North
America
37Canadian Shield Carefully
Thousands of lakes formed by glaciers
Old rock formations
38Canadian Shield Carefully
39Canadian Shield
40The frozen tundra of the Northern area of the
Canadian Shield
41A forest located in the middle of the Canadian
Shield
42The End
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