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COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”

The Eight Geographic Regions of North America “Crazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking Cookies Carefully”. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”. located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”. (Massachusettes ). Farmland.

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COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY”

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  1. The Eight Geographic Regions of North America“Crazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking Cookies Carefully”

  2. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY” located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico • Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors

  3. COASTAL PLAIN “CRAZY” (Massachusettes) Farmland

  4. Coastal Plain ( What word represents Coastal Plain?) Inlets, Harbors, Bays, Rivers, and Beaches

  5. Eastern Coastal Plain

  6. Texas GulfCoastal Plain

  7. Coastal PlainEverglades National Park

  8. Appalachian Highlands/Mountains“Apes” • 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

  9. Appalachian Highlands (Mountains)

  10. Appalachian Mountains (What word represents this region?) Old eroded mountains

  11. 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

  12. Interior Lowlands

  13. Interior Lowlands

  14. Great Plains “GREEN” • Located west of Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains • Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands

  15. Great Plains “GREEN”

  16. Great Plains “GREEN”

  17. Great Plains “GREEN”

  18. 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

  19. Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”

  20. Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”

  21. Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”

  22. Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”

  23. Rocky Mountains “Raincoats”

  24. 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

  25. Basin and Ridge “BAKING” Big Bend National Park, Texas Big Basin National Park, Nevada

  26. The Grand Canyon and Sedona

  27. 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

  28. Images of Death Valley (Basin & Range) Ubehebe crater Ubehebe Crater (vocanoes)

  29. Coastal Range “Cookies” • Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada; • Contains fertile valleys

  30. Coastal Range “Cookies”

  31. Coastal Range “Cookies”

  32. Coastal Range Sierra Nevada Range Mount Olympus (viewed from Hurricane Ridge) Cascade Range Mount St. Helens

  33. Coastal Range Fertile Valleys of the Pacific Coast

  34. Coastal Range “Cookies” Pacific Coast

  35. Yosemite National Park

  36. 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

  37. Canadian Shield “Carefully” Thousands of lakes formed by glaciers Old rock formations

  38. Canadian Shield“Carefully”

  39. Canadian Shield

  40. The frozen tundra of the Northern area of the Canadian Shield

  41. A forest located in the middle of the Canadian Shield

  42. The End Crazy A_ _ _ In _ _ _ _ _ Raincoats _ _ _ _ _ _ Cookies _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

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