Mountains, Mississippi River, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes

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Mountains, Mississippi River, Grand Canyon, Great
Lakes

• V. Martinez

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Major landforms of the U.S.

• Rocky Mountains
• Appalachian Mountains
• Gulf of Mexico
• Mississippi River
• Grand Canyon
• Great Lakes

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Appalachian Mountains eastern part of the U.S.

• Louisiana

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The Appalachian Mountains run through these
states.http//www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/ma
ps.html

• New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky,
  Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South
  Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi

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Rocky Mountains are in the western part of the
U.S.http//www.peakbagger.com/range.aspx?rid14
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Gulf of Mexicohttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_o
f_Mexico

• The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of
  water in the world. It is an ocean basin largely
  surrounded by the North American continent and
  the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the
  northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast
  of the United States, on the southwest and south
  by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba

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Gulf of Mexico
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The Mississippi River flows through these
states.http//www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/state
sbw/mrstates/ms.shtml

• Its source is in
• Minnesota. Thats where
• It begins.
• Its mouth is in
• Louisiana. Thats where
• It empties into the
• Gulf of Mexico.

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The Mississippi River Father of Waters
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River

• The Mississippi River is the second longest river
  in the United States, with a length of
  2,340 miles (3,766 km) from its source in Lake
  Itasca (Minnesota) to its mouth in Gulf of Mexico
  (The longest is its tributary the Missouri River
  measuring 2565 miles). The Mississippi River is
  part of the Jefferson-Missouri-Mississippi river
  system, which is the largest river system in
  North America and among the largest in the world
  by length (6,275 km or 3,900 miles), it is the
  fourth longest, and by average discharge (16,200
  m³/s), it is the tenth largest. The longest of
  the many long Mississippi tributaries is the
  Missouri River with the Arkansas River as second
  longest. Measured by water volume, the largest of
  all Mississippi tributaries is the Ohio River.
  The name Mississippi is derived from the Ojibwe
  word misi-ziibi meaning 'great river'
  (gichi-ziibi 'big river' at its headwaters).

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Great Lakes spell homes

• Huron
• Ontario
• Michigan
• Erie
• Superior

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Great Lakeshttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lak
es

• The Great Lakes are a chain of five freshwater
  lakes located in eastern North America, on the
  Canada-United States border. Consisting of Lakes
  Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario,
  they form the largest group of freshwater lakes
  on Earth. They are sometimes referred to as
  inland seas or Canada and the United States'
  Third Coast.

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http//www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/statesbw/grea
tlakes.shtml Great Lakes
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Label the continents, the equator, the poles.
http//www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/label/l
abelcontinents.shtml
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Equator, North Pole, South Pole
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The equator is at 0 degrees lattitudeThe tropic
of cancer is at 23 ½ degrees north latitude.The
tropic of capricorn is at 23 ½ degrees south
latitude.The prime meridian is at 0 degrees
longitude.

• http//geography.about.com/library/misc/blequator.
  htm