Geographic Regions

Question 1

Appalachian region

Answer 1

Located at the east coast of North America(Newfoundland to Alabama)

Folded mountains, erosion, river valleys, fertile plateaus

The Labrador current and the Gulf Stream affects the climate

Coniferous and decorous forests

Question 2

The coastal plains

Answer 2

Located at the lowland, south-east, area of North America.

Elevated above sea level, surface is mostly flat or rolling hills, swampy and marshy

North-cold and snowy, south- warm

Sandy soil

Question 3

The Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Lowland

Answer 3

Smallest geographic region, located around Ontario, Niagara Falls

Rolling landscape, deep river valleys

Humid continental climate.

Fertile soils and heavily treed

Question 4

The interior plains

Answer 4

Flat, rolling hills, located in the middle of North America

Continental climate affected by its location, long hot summers, cold winters

Mixed deciduous trees and evergreens

Question 5

The Canadian Shield

Answer 5

Great volcanic mountains, located north east of North America(Hudson bay)

Barren rock, chaotic patterns of lakes and rivers, swamps, and muskeg. The centre of the shield is covered in clay

North-winters r increasingly long, summer become shorter

Boreal forests

Question 6

The Western Cordillera

Answer 6

West coast of North America

Rocky Mountains, volcanic mountains, folded mountains, no erosion

River valleys

Maritime climate

Tall trees, dry valleys going south

Question 7

The Intermountain region

Answer 7

Inside/ surrounded by the Western Cordillera

Thin plateaus and isolated mountains

Streams, lakes, most doesn’t reach ocean

South- winters are short and warm, North- opposite as south

Sparse grassland to semi desert or desert, higher areas r covered in pine forest

Question 8

The arctic

Answer 8

Located at the very north at the island THINGS

Very flat, glaciers

Basically winter all around

Basically no vegetation besides lichen