Eight Regions Of North America

A Power Point about the eight regions of North America.

1. Eight Regions of
North America
SOL USI.2b

3. 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 Plain

4. Coastal Range
West of the Rocky Mountains
Stretches from Alaska 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. G
r
e
a
t
P
l
a
i
n
s

13. Great Plains

14. Interior Lowlands
West of the Appalachian Mountains
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
Some of the oldest rock formations in
North America

18. Canadian Shield
These are
Trees.
Thousands of Lakes

19. Canadian
Shield, rock
formations

20. Appalachian Mountains
West of the Coastal Plain
Range from Canada to western
Alabama
Oldest mountains in North America
Old eroded mountains

21. Appalachian
Mountains

22. Appalachian
Mountains in
the fall.

23. Coastal Plain
Stretches along the Atlantic Ocean
Broad lowland with excellent harbors
Borders the Gulf of Mexico
Long sandy beaches

24. A bay in the Coastal Plain

25. Inlets, bays and
capes along the
Coastal Plain