1. Warm-up Complete 8 Regions Bell Ringer Write Homework in your agenda: Create a Post Card for one of the 8 Regions. Describe what the land is like and what you might do in each region.

2. Agenda Review Warm-up Create 8 Regions Flip book Geographic Features Songs

3. Eight Regions of North America Language Objective: Students will be able to describe the features of each of the 8 Regions Content Objective: Students be able to define major geographic features.

5. 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 Plains

6. Coastal Range West of the Rocky Mountains Stretches from Canada to California Made up of Rugged Mountains and Fertile Valleys

7. Coastal Range

9. Fertile valleys: example-California strawberries, and oranges

10. Basin and Range West of the Rocky Mountains Varying (different) elevations and isolated mountain ranges Death Valley Death Valley is the lowest point in North America

12. Great Basin meets Rocky Mountains

13. Varying elevations and isolated mountain ranges

14. Basin and Range Death Valley- lowest point in North America

16. Rocky Mountains

18. Rocky Mountain view from an airplane

19. Continental Divide determines the directional flow of rainfall.

20. Great Plains Flatlands that increase in elevation slightly to the west Known for grasslands

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22. Great Plains- grassland

23. Interior Lowlands Lowlands of rolling flatlands Rivers Broad valleys and Grassy hills

24. Interior Lowlands Rivers and broad river valleys

25. Mississippi River Valley

27. Interior Lowlands Grassy Hills

28. 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

29. Wraps around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape Hudson Bay

30. Thousands of years ago, during the ICE AGE, Canada and the northern United States was covered by glaciers- large masses of ice.

31. Canadian Shield These are Trees. Thousands of Lakes When the glaciers melted, they left thousands of lakes.

32. The northern most area

33. Polar Bear capital of the world: Churchill, Manitoba

34. Canadian Shield, rock formations Some of the oldest rock formations in North America

35. Appalachian Mountains Range from Canada to western Alabama Oldest mountains in North America Old eroded mountains

36. The Great Smokey Mountains

37. Appalachian Mountains Great Smoky Mountains

38. Appalachian Mountains in the fall.

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

40. Broad lowlands

41. Many Excellent Harbors

42. Long sandy beaches Plains- large area of flat land Coastal – Next to the ocean