Geographic Features

1. Do Now.a. Record the Objective: Identify the main geographic features of North America. Create a map key.

b. Make a list of all the landforms and climate regions that you know.

c. Students share their brainstorming with a partner or the class.

Joe Streany(914)393-0712Joseph.Streany@chufsd.org

Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map

Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map

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Hudson Riverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Hudson_Valley/Selected_picture

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/river/

St. Lawrence River

Mississippi River

http://www.cnn.com

/2010/OPINION/06/13/kemp.oil.river/

Missouri R

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http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/Washington.html

Ohio RiverPast & Present

http://point-bridge.com/about-us/pittsburgh-the-point/

Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map

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Sierra Nevada

Mountains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)#mediaviewer/File:SierraEscarpmentCA.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)#mediaviewer/File:Sierra_Nevada-terabass.jpg

Rocky Mountains

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/wyoming/rocky-mountains http://www.mywyomingadventure.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/DSCF0724.jpg

Appalachian Mountains

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140122212856/cryptidz/images/8/8a/Appalachian_Mountains_I.jpg

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/alpine.htm

Appalachian Mountains, West Virginia

Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map

Death Valley Desert (Hottest Place on Earth)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/01/death-valley-hottest-on-earth

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Mesquite_Sand_Dunes_in_Death_Valley.jpg

http://www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national-park

http://o.aolcdn.com/os/mapquest/national-parks/photos/park-pano/death-valley-national-park.jpg

Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map

The G

reat Pla

ins

The Great Plains

http://www.americanprairie.org/news/top-10-ecotourism-sites-in-the-great-plains/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/greatplains.html

http://netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/great-plains-americas-lingering-wild

- Regions / Climates - Jig-Saw Time

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Map of North Americahttp://www.myndrs.com/teachers/bdharmasetia/SS%209_Web/Unit%205/North%20America%20blank%20map.bmp

Key:Mountain - Rivers - Desert - Plains -

Directions - Create your Key and Label your Map