Hybridoma Technology ( Production , Purification , and Application )
Unit 4. Land relief and water distribution in America
1. 4. LAND RELIEF AND WATER DISTRIBUTION IN AMERICA
Its average altitude: 650 metres
LOCATE ON THE PHYSICAL MAP THE LAND RELIEF OF AMERICA (and the distribution of water):
MOUNTAINS
- Appalachian Mountains (Montes Apalaches)
- Sierra Madre
- Rocky Mountains (Montañas Rocosas)
- Brazilian Highlands (Meseta Brasileña)
- Andes (Aconcagua 6.961, the highest mountain of America).
- Alaska Mountains (Montes de Alaska).
PENINSULAS
- California
- Labrador
- Florida
- Yucatan.
PLATEAUS
- Colorado
- Patagonia
PLAINS
- Orinoco
- Great Plains (Gran LlanuraNorteamericana)
- Gran Chaco (Llanura Chaco-Pampea).
ISLANDS/ARCHIPELAGOS
- Baffin Island
- Victoria Island
- Galapagos Islands
- Greenland (Groenlandia)
- Puerto Rico
- Cuba
- Jamaica
- Hispaniola
- Bahamas
- Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands)
- Newfoundland Island (Terranova).
2. CAPES/GULFS/BAYS
- Cape San Lucas
- Cape San Roque
- Cape Horn
- Mexico Gulf
- Gulf of Alaska
- Hudson Bay
- Baffin Bay.
STRAITS
Bering Strait.
RIVERS
- Atlantic watershed: Panama, Amazon, Orinoco, Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri.
- Pacific watershed: Yukon.
- Arctic watershed: Mackenzie.
SEAS AND OCEANS
Atlantic Ocean – Pacific Ocean – Arctic Ocean – Labrador Sea – Caribbean Sea – Beaufort Sea – Bering Sea.