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Study Guide Questions
1. What countries make up the world region known as "North America"?
2. ____________________ ______________________ images depict the green colors of vegetation in red and pink tones.
3. Name three of the eight major physiographic regions.
4. "________________________" is a term used to describe the distance between the highest and lowest points in a landscape.
5. Barrier islands are separated from the mainland by a shallow _________________________ .
6. The Great ________________________ make up the Appalachian's widest point.
7. The Bay of ________________________'s erratic tides carve the shore into fantastic shapes.
8. The ___________________________ Shield consists of many Precambrian rocks.
9. The Platte River forms a(n) _______________________________ pattern as waters flow around islands of sediment.
10. The _________________________________ consist of loosely consolidated soils, eroded into dramatic formations.
11. The ____________________________ Mountains were uplifted, and sedimentary strata tilted up, to create a jumbled landscape.
12. List three glacially-carved features.
13. List four landforms intrinsic to the Intermontane Region.
14. What are "playas"?
15. What volcano of the northwest erupted in 1980?
16. extends from the Cape Cod peninsula to the tip of South Texas and is composed of low coastal plains; pines and swamps predominate
17. dry land with natural vegetation, ranging from desert in the south to grasslands and drought-tolerant forests farther north
18. Mountains here are old and heavily eroded, with few summits above 6000 feet.
19. an area of low relief, consisting of short-grass steppes and erosional remnants and escarpments
20. Some of this northwestern region's high mountains are volcanic.
21. Pleistocene glaciers gave areas of this region a characteristically Alpine landscape.
22. This region is often called the "bread basket" of America.
23. Thousands of lakes in this region were formed by continental glaciers.
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