Geography Unit 2 Notes

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Rocky Mountains

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extend over 3000 miles from New Mexico to Alaska.

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Pacific Range

Back 2

Consist of Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, Coast Range and Alaska Range. Mt Denali highest peak USA

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Glacier National Park

Back 3

located on the border btw Alaska and British Columbia

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Dry Basins and Plateaus

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lie btw Rocky Mts and west coast formed by lava seeping through cracks in earths crust

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Appalachian Mts

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extend 1,500 miles from Alabama to Canada, oldest mountain range in North America, formed tectonic activity, eroded by water and ice

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Large expanse of latitude

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due to this US and Canada experience a wide range of climate and vegetation

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Humid-subtropical

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Southeast Rainy with long muggy summers and mild winters experience hurricanes

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Humid Continental

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Great Plains cold winters, hot summers. Experience supercells-violent thunderstorms and tornados

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Semi-arid

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Btw Great Plains and West coast and Southwest. created by rain shadow effect of the Mountains to the west.

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Sub-arctic Tundra and ice cap zones

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Alaska and large parts of Canada cold winters, short summers and coniferous forests. Moose, black bears, beavers wolves etc...

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Great Plains

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Interior of US flat-lands extend from Rockies to the Appalachians 300-700 miles

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Hawaiian Islands

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formed when magma erupted from hot spots the oceans floor

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Canadian Shield

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along the Eastern edge of interior lowland in Canada giant core of rock carved out by glaciers

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Mississippi River

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2350 miles from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Golf of Mexico

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St Lawrence River

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Cannandian river 760 miles from Lake Ontario to the Golf of St. Lawrence in the Atlantic