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Mountains, Mississippi River, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes

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Mountains, Mississippi River, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes

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    1. 1 Mountains, Mississippi River, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes V. Martinez

    2. 2 Major landforms of the U.S. Rocky Mountains Appalachian Mountains Gulf of Mexico Mississippi River Grand Canyon Great Lakes

    3. 3 Appalachian Mountains – eastern part of the U.S. Louisiana

    4. 4 The Appalachian Mountains run through these states. http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/maps.html New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi

    5. 5 Rocky Mountains are in the western part of the U.S. http://www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid=14

    6. 6 Gulf of Mexico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. It is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba

    7. 7 Gulf of Mexico

    8. 8 The Mississippi River flows through these states. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/mrstates/ms.shtml Its source is in Minnesota. That’s where It begins. It’s mouth is in Louisiana. That’s where It empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

    9. 9 The Mississippi River – “Father of Waters” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,340 miles (3,766 km) from its source in Lake Itasca (Minnesota) to its mouth in Gulf of Mexico (The longest is its tributary the Missouri River measuring 2565 miles). The Mississippi River is part of the Jefferson-Missouri-Mississippi river system, which is the largest river system in North America and among the largest in the world: by length (6,275 km or 3,900 miles), it is the fourth longest, and by average discharge (16,200 m³/s), it is the tenth largest. The longest of the many long Mississippi tributaries is the Missouri River with the Arkansas River as second longest. Measured by water volume, the largest of all Mississippi tributaries is the Ohio River. The name Mississippi is derived from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning 'great river' (gichi-ziibi 'big river' at its headwaters).

    10. 10 Great Lakes: spell homes Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior

    11. 11 Great Lakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes The Great Lakes are a chain of five freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada-United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth. They are sometimes referred to as inland seas or Canada and the United States' Third Coast.

    12. 12 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/greatlakes.shtml Great Lakes

    13. 13 Label the continents, the equator, the poles. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/label/labelcontinents.shtml

    14. 14 Equator, North Pole, South Pole

    15. 15 The equator is at 0 degrees lattitude The tropic of cancer is at 23 ½ degrees north latitude. The tropic of capricorn is at 23 ½ degrees south latitude. The prime meridian is at 0 degrees longitude. http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blequator.htm

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