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Regions of United States

Regions of United States. Regions of United States. Pacific Coast Intermountain Rocky Mountains Interior Plains Canadian Shield Appalachian Highlands Coastal Plains. Pacific Coast. West of the Rocky Mountains Stretches from Canada to California

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Regions of United States

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  1. Regions of United States

  2. Regions of United States • Pacific Coast • Intermountain • Rocky Mountains • Interior Plains • Canadian Shield • Appalachian Highlands • Coastal Plains

  3. Pacific Coast • West of the Rocky Mountains • Stretches from Canada to California • Made up of Rugged Mountains and Fertile Valleys

  4. Pacific Coast

  5. Pacific Coast

  6. Intermountain • West of the Rocky Mountains • East of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades • Varying elevations and isolated mountain ranges • Death Valley • Death Valley is the lowest point in North America

  7. Intermountain

  8. Rocky Mountains • West of the Great Plains • East of the Great Basin • Rugged Mountains with High Elevations • Includes the Continental Divide • The Continental Divide determines the directional flow of rivers

  9. Rocky Mountains

  10. Interior Plains • West of the Interior Lowlands • East of the Rocky Mountains • Flatlands that increase in elevation slightly to the west • Known for grasslands • Lowlands of rolling flatlands • Rivers

  11. Interior Plains

  12. Interior Plains

  13. Interior Plains

  14. Interior Plains

  15. Canadian Shield • Wraps around the southern portions of the Great Lakes and the Hudson Bay • Hills worn by erosion • Hundreds of glacier carved lakes • Some of the oldest rock formations in North America

  16. Thousands of Lakes These are Trees. Canadian Shield

  17. Canadian Shield, rock formations

  18. Appalachian Mountains • West of the Coastal Plains • Range from Canada to western Alabama • Oldest mountains in North America • Old eroded mountains

  19. Appalachian Mountains

  20. Appalachian Mountains in the fall.

  21. Coastal Plains • Stretches along the Atlantic Ocean • Broad lowland with excellent harbors • Borders the Gulf of Mexico • Long sandy beaches

  22. A bay in the Coastal Plains

  23. Inlets, bays and capes along the Coastal Plains

  24. Hawaii • The Hawaiian archipelago is a string of islands and reefs. • Volcanoes • Beaches • Cliffs • low mountains • hills

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