USA and Canada Land and Resources

Chapter 5 sec. 1

• L Main Topics for Cornell notesLandforms

Natural Resources

Water

Western Mountains and Plateaus

• Pacific Ranges – include Mt. McKinley• Rocky Mountains from New Mexico to Alaska• Dry basins – Death Valley – Grand Canyon

Interior Landforms

Rockies fall off and flatten into the Great Plains

Eastern Mountains and Lowlands

• North Americas oldest mountain rage the Appalachians extend from Quebec to Alabama

• Canadian Shield giant core rock – Makes up eastern half of Canada and the USA

Islands

• Manhattan• Hawaii • Greenland• Elsmere Island

A Fortune in Water

• Rivers in the Rockies

Mississippi

The Great Lakes

Natural Resources