1. Eight Regions of
North America
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3. 8 Regions of North America
1) Coastal Range
2) Basin and Range
3) Rocky Mountains
4) Great Plains
5) Interior Lowlands
6) Canadian Shield
7) Appalachian Mountains
8) Coastal Plain

4. Coastal Range
 West of the Rocky Mountains
 Stretches from Alaska to California
 Made up of Rugged Mountains and
Fertile Valleys

5. Coastal Range

6. Coastal Range

7. Basin and Range
 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

8. Basin
and
Range

9. 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

10. Rocky
Mountains

11. Great Plains
 West of the Interior Lowlands
 East of the Rocky Mountains
 Flatlands that increase in elevation
slightly to the west
 Known for grasslands

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13. Great Plains

14. Interior Lowlands
 West of the Appalachian Mountains
 East of the Great Plains
 Lowlands of rolling flatlands
 Rivers
 Broad valleys and
 Grassy hills

15. Interior Lowlands

16. Interior
Lowlands

17. 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

18. Thousands of Lakes
These are
Trees.
Canadian Shield

19. Canadian
Shield, rock
formations

20. Appalachian Mountains
 West of the Coastal Plain
 Range from Canada to western
Alabama
 Oldest mountains in North America
 Old eroded mountains

21. Appalachian
Mountains

22. Appalachian
Mountains in
the fall.

23. Coastal Plain
 Stretches along the Atlantic Ocean
 Broad lowland with excellent harbors
 Borders the Gulf of Mexico
 Long sandy beaches

24. A bay in the Coastal Plain

25. Inlets, bays and
capes along the
Coastal Plain