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15 Cards in this Set
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Rocky Mountains |
extend over 3000 miles from New Mexico to Alaska. |
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Pacific Range |
Consist of Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, Coast Range and Alaska Range. Mt Denali highest peak USA |
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Glacier National Park |
located on the border btw Alaska and British Columbia |
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Dry Basins and Plateaus |
lie btw Rocky Mts and west coast formed by lava seeping through cracks in earths crust |
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Appalachian Mts |
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 |
due to this US and Canada experience a wide range of climate and vegetation |
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Humid-subtropical |
Southeast Rainy with long muggy summers and mild winters experience hurricanes |
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Humid Continental |
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 |
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 |
Interior of US flat-lands extend from Rockies to the Appalachians 300-700 miles |
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Hawaiian Islands |
formed when magma erupted from hot spots the oceans floor |
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Canadian Shield |
along the Eastern edge of interior lowland in Canada giant core of rock carved out by glaciers |
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Mississippi River |
2350 miles from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Golf of Mexico |
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St Lawrence River |
Cannandian river 760 miles from Lake Ontario to the Golf of St. Lawrence in the Atlantic |