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Landform Regions
Western mts & plateaus Pacific Ranges & Rocky
mts + Columbia & Colorado
Plateaus, Great Basin
Eastern mts & lowlands Appalachian Mts,
Canadian Shield Gulf Coastal Plain,
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Interior landforms Great Plains
Islands Hawaii, Vancouver,
Maritimes, Alaska, Arctic, Manhattan
Inland Water Resources
Rocky Mt. Rivers Columbia,
Colorado, Rio Grande, Mackenzie
Eastern Rivers St. Lawrence Important cities
developed on rivers +
Mississippi River Basin Drains 31 states & 2
provinces Includes Missouri and
Ohio as tributaries
Lakes Formed by glaciers Great Lakes, Great
Slave and Great Bear
Natural Resources
Fossil fuels Oil, coal, natural gas
Minerals Gold, silver, copper,
iron ore, nickel, potash, bauxite
Timber Conservation v.
economics Coastal Waters
fishing
Climate Regions +
Polar Tundra = Arctic areas
of Alaska & Canada Subarctic = Alaska &
Canada
Tropical Savanna = S.
Florida Rain forest =
Hawaii
Arid Steppe = Great Basin
& western Great Plains Desert = Great Basin
& SW US
Highland Rocky Mts. Pacific Ranges
Climate Regions +
MID-LATITUDE MID-LATITUDE
Marine West Coast = Pacific Coast from Northern California to Southern Alaska
Mediterranean = Southern California to the San Francisco Bay area
Humid continental = Eastern Great Plains, Great Lakes, East Coast and Maritimes
Humid subtropical = Southeastern United States into Texas