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1 Oh the Places We Will Go !!!! SS5G1 The student will locate important places in the United States. a. Locate important physical features; include the Grand Canyon, Salton Sea, Great Salt Lake, and Mojave Desert. b. Locate important man-made places; include the Chisholm Trail; Pittsburgh, PA; Gettysburg, PA; Kitty Hawk, NC; Pearl Harbor, HI; and Montgomery, AL.

2 United States has many physical features, from East to West.
Rolling Hills Jagged Mountains Canyons Lakes Seas Deserts Physical Features

3 The Grand Canyon is a deep gorge in Northwest Arizona.
1 mile deep 277 miles long Formed by the Colorado River The Grand Canyon

4 The Grand Canyon

5 Salton Sea Salton Sea Largest lake in the state of California
Large depression 240 feet below sea level. Colorado River overflow made the Salton Sea Very Salty Salton Sea

6 Salton Sea

7 Great Salt Lake Great Salt Lake Bigger than the Salton Sea
Located in Utah Largest Lake in the Western United States Salty enough to float Great Salt Lake

8 Great Salt Lake

9 Mojave Desert Mojave Desert
Covers 25,000 square miles in southeastern California Flat areas Mountain ranges Hot- temperature in the summer is 120 degrees!!!! Mojave Desert

10 Mojave Desert

11 Chisholm Trail-Trail from Texas to Kansas, taking cattle to market.

12 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is a Pennsylvania city that is one of the world’s largest steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh grew as a manufacturing center because important raw materials under its soil-the iron ore and coal needed to make iron and steel.

13 Gettysburg- Pennsylvania town where Civil War battle was fought
Gettysburg- Pennsylvania town where Civil War battle was fought. It was the turning point in the war.

14 Kitty Hawk North Carolina-on the coast where the Wright Brothers made their first airplane flight.

15 Pearl Harbor-Hawaii Navy base attacked by Japanese planes on December 7, 1941.

16 Montgomery Alabama- City where Martin Luther King, Jr
Montgomery Alabama- City where Martin Luther King, Jr. led a famous bus boycott along with Rosa Parks.

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