The Eight Geographic Regions of North America

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The Eight Geographic Regions of North
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COASTAL PLAIN CRAZY

• located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of
  Mexico
• Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors

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COASTAL PLAIN CRAZY
(Massachusettes)
Farmland
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Coastal Plain ( What word represents Coastal
Plain?)
Inlets, Harbors, Bays, Rivers, and Beaches
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Eastern Coastal Plain
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Texas GulfCoastal Plain
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Coastal PlainEverglades National Park
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Appalachian 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
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Appalachian Highlands (Mountains)
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Appalachian Mountains (What word represents this
region?)
Old eroded mountains
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Interior 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

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Interior Lowlands
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Interior Lowlands
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Great Plains GREEN

• Located west of Interior Lowlands and east of the
  Rocky Mountains
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation
  westward grasslands

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Great Plains GREEN
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Great Plains GREEN
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Great Plains GREEN
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Rocky 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

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Rocky Mountains Raincoats
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Rocky Mountains Raincoats
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Rocky Mountains Raincoats
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Rocky Mountains Raincoats
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Rocky Mountains Raincoats
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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

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Basin and Ridge BAKING
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Big Basin National Park, Nevada
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The Grand Canyon and Sedona
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Images 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
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Images of Death Valley (Basin Range)
Ubehebe crater
Ubehebe Crater (vocanoes)
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Coastal Range Cookies

• Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that
  stretch from California to Canada
• Contains fertile valleys 

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Coastal Range Cookies
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Coastal Range Cookies
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Coastal Range
Sierra Nevada Range
Mount Olympus (viewed from Hurricane
Ridge)
Cascade Range
Mount St. Helens
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Coastal Range
Fertile Valleys of the Pacific
Coast
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Pacific Coast
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Yosemite National Park
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Canadian 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

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Thousands of lakes formed by glaciers
Old rock formations
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Canadian Shield
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The frozen tundra of the Northern area of the
Canadian Shield
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A forest located in the middle of the Canadian
Shield
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