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1 Eight Regions of North America
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3 8 Regions of North America
Coastal Range Basin and Range Rocky Mountains Great Plains Interior Lowlands Canadian Shield Appalachian Highlands Coastal Plains

4 Coastal Range Along Pacific Coast Stretches from Canada 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

12 Great Plains

13 Great Plains

14 Interior Lowlands West of the Appalachian Highlands
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

18 Thousands of Lakes These are Trees. Canadian Shield

19 Canadian Shield, rock formations

20 Appalachian Highlands
West of the Coastal Plains Range from Canada to western Alabama Oldest mountains in North America Old eroded mountains

21 Appalachian Highlands

22 Appalachian Highlands in the fall.

23 Coastal Plains Stretches along the Atlantic Ocean
Broad lowland with excellent harbors Borders the Gulf of Mexico Connect North America to the world

24 A bay in the Coastal Plains

25 Inlets, bays and capes along the Coastal Plains


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