Landforms in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US

Overview of Landforms in the region Appalachian Plateau Adirondack Mountains Low plains along coast Good harbor for ships Multiple Lakes & Rivers Atlantic Ocean The Jersey Shore Niagara Falls The Piedmont The Fall Line The Poconos

Landforms in Delaware The Piedmont Region- low rolling foothills Marshes The Great Cypress Swamp Many rivers- The Delaware, Christina River, Brandywine Creek, etc. Delaware Bay Beaches

Landforms in Maryland Calvert Cliffs The Piedmont Marshes The Eastern shore- plain gradually rises from the flatlands to low hills Pine forests Low wooded hills The Alleghenies Mountain Range The Blue Ridge Mountains More than 50 rivers ex: The Potomac, Patuxent, Patapsco, Susquehanna, Chester, Choptank

Landforms in New Jersey Hudson River Atlantic Ocean Kittatinny Mountains (part of the Appalachians) The Appalachians Rivers ex: The Passaic, Raritan, Great Egg Harbor Lake Hopatcong – the largest of New Jersey’s 800 lakes The Fall Line

Landforms in New York Long Island Beach Appalachian Mountains 2 of the Great Lakes: Ontario and Erie Thousands of lakes, formed by glaciers The Finger lakes The Hudson River and Mohawk River Lake Oneida, Ausable Lake Adirondack Mountains

Landforms in Pennsylvania All of Pennsylvania’s Mountains are part of the Appalachians Mountains: Allegheny and Pocono Mountain Ranges The Great Valley – famous for it’s fertile farmland Coastal Plain Lake Erie- one of the Great Lakes Several Large Lake: Allegheny Reservoir, Monogahela, Rivers: Ohio, Susquehanna Over ½ is covered with forest

Landforms in West Virginia Known as the mountain state The Appalachians Deep valleys 2 panhandles

Chesapeake Bay  is the largest *estuary in the United States.  It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia.  The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers 64,299 square miles (166,534 km2) in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.  More than 150 rivers and streams drain into the bay. *An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

Hudson River/ Hudson River Valley  The Hudson River valley runs more or less north to south down the eastern edge of New York State, cutting through a series of rock types  To the west lie the extensive Appalachian highlands.  The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) watercourse that flows from north to south through eastern New York State in the United States.  The river begins at Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York. The river flows southward past the state capital at Albany and then eventually forms the boundary between New York City and the U.S. state of New Jersey

Appalachian Mountain Range  often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.  These States within the Mid-Atlantic Region have the range running through them: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and, West Virginia

Niagara Falls  is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.  From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls

The Jersey Shore/Beach  The Jersey shore extends 130 miles along the Atlantic Ocean, and the beaches feature casinos, Victorian houses, boardwalks, and amusement parks.  The Jersey Shore is a popular vacation spot for both New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians.  Geographically, the term encompasses about 217 miles of the New Jersey coastal area from Sandy Hook in the north to Cape May in the south.

The Piedmont  The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south.

Stokes State Forest  Stokes State Forest is a state park located in Sandyston Township, Montague and Frankford Twp. in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.  Stokes comprises 16,025 acres (64.85 km2) of mountainous woods. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.

Time to Begin your Research!  I will draw group numbers and your group will get to pick which landform you will be doing… out of the 5 listed below  You will need to collect information and fill out the fact sheet.  After your fact sheet is filled out, you are going to be making this landform out of recyclables