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Lisa Pennington

SOL USI.2b updated for 2008

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Geography Review Sarah Duncan Social Studies Specialist Portsmouth Public Schools
The Coastal Plain ,[object Object],[object Object]
http://www.worldbook.com/features/lewisandclark/assets/appalachians.gif The Appalachian Highlands ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Canadian Shield ,[object Object],[object Object],http://www.nucleartourist.com/images/shield1.jpg http://csern.laurentian.ca/Canadian_Shield.htm
Interior Lowlands ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Interior Lowlands (Many rivers with broad river valleys)
The Great Plains Located west of the Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward Grasslands http://www.stephentrimble.net/gp/closeup.asp
Rocky Mountains ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/WesternPopulationTagUtah.html
 
Appalachian Mountains Rocky Mountains Can you see the difference? http://photos.kailiu.com/images/dscf6752.jpg http://www.elkfordcampground.com/
[object Object],[object Object],http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Notes/basin_and_range.html http://www.ilexikon.com/images/6/62/LocMap_death_valley_np.png Death Valley
http://www.ilexikon.com/images/9/93/Racetrack-Playa-Death-Valley-2.jpg http://www.itine-rari.it/immagini/Dante's%20View,%20Death%20Valley%20National%20Park,%20California.JPG
http://www.coastrange.org/images/project_map3.jpg ,[object Object],[object Object],Coastal Range

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2b geographic regions

Editor's Notes

  1. http://countrystudies.us/united-states/geography-1.htm http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/elh1323/unitplan/mapland.htm
  2. Bread Basket Dust Bowl Steel Plow Cattle (beef and chesse)
  3. Dust Bowl Rocky Soil Steel Plow Last to be settled Transcontinental Railroad
  4. The Rocky Mountains are the checker-boarded shaded area.
  5. http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/wm146.htm (Scroll down for wildlife, history and ecology)