Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck.

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Land forms Hawaii and Alaska, Rocky mountains, western plateaus, basins and ranges Pacific ranges and lowlands By: Molly Beck

Hawaii and Alaska Wild and beautiful Alaska is home to majestic mountains and Mt. McKinley rises 20,3200 feet above sea level Mt. McKinley, Alaska majestic mountains

Mt. Dental in Alaska Mt. Dental

Alaska Alaska has a very long coastline broken by many inlets and bays north of the brooks range there is a wide coastal plain the southern coast has many steep cliffs is the largest state of the United states

Hawaii Hawaii is a state in the united states located on an archipelago in the central Pacific ocean southwest of the continental united states of Japan and northeast of Australia it takes eight islands to make Hawaii. The lush green islands of Hawaii are the visible tops of a chain of submerged volcanic mountains that stretch 3,100 miles from hawaiih

Tundra and wonder lake Denali national park Alaska USA

Rocky Mountains The rocky mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometers (3,000miles) the ranges highest peak is Mount Elbert in Colorado at 14,440feet 94,401 meters above sea level which are located immediately adjacent to the pacific coast

Western plateaus, basin and ranges Region that is part of the intermountain region in the USA and Mexico covering over 777,000sq km/3000,000sqmi within the USA the region occupies most of the state of Nevada as well as parts of Utah the basin and ranges region lies between the Columbia plateau (north) the Wasatch range and Columbia plateau (east) and the cascade range and sierra Nevada (west) and extend

Pacific Ranges and Lowlands Near the Ecuadorian frontier the Andes mountains divide into three distinct roughly parallel chains called cordilleras that extend northeastward almost to the Caribbean sea altitudes reach more than 5,700 meters and mountains peaks are permanently covered with snow

Rocky mountains

Western Plateaus Basins and Ranges

Pacific Ranges and Lowlands

Alaska

Hawaii