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.

Agenda

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

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.

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

Coastal Range

West of the Rocky Mountains Stretches from Canada to California Made up of Rugged Mountains and

Fertile Valleys

Coastal Range

Coastal Range

Fertile valleys: example-California strawberries, and oranges

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

Great Basin meets Rocky Mountains

Varying elevations and isolated mountain ranges

Basin and Range

Death Valley- lowest point in North America

Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountain view from an airplane

Continental Divide determines the directional flow of rainfall.

Great Plains Flatlands that increase

in elevation

slightly to the west

Known for grasslands

Great

Plains

Great Plains- grassland

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

Interior Lowlands

Rivers and broad river valleys

Mississippi River Valley

Interior Lowlands

Grassy Hills

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

Wraps around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape

Hudson Bay

Thousands of

years ago,

during the ICE

AGE, Canada

and the

northern United

States was

covered by

glaciers- large

masses of ice.

Canadian Shield

These are Trees.

Thousands of Lakes

When the glaciers melted, they left thousands of lakes.

The northern most area

Polar Bear capital of the world: Churchill, Manitoba

Canadian Shield, rock formations

Some of the oldest

rock formations in

North America

Appalachian Mountains Range from Canada to western

Alabama Oldest mountains in North America Old eroded mountains

The Great Smokey Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

Great Smoky MountainsGreat Smoky Mountains

Appalachian Mountains in the fall.

Coastal Plains

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

Broad lowlands

Many Excellent Harbors

Long sandy beaches

Plains- large area of flat land

Coastal – Next to the ocean