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North America
Varied landforms
North America has a wide variety of landforms. It has
mountains, plains, deserts, tundra, etc. Lets look at a
few.
The brown
area along the
coast is
lowlands.
Appalachian Highlands
Mountain chain that runs along the eastern U.S.
Rocky Mountains
Large western mountain chain.
78 peaks of 12,000 feet or more above sea level
Winter
Summer
Continental Divide
All rivers flow either east or west. The continental
divide is the line at which they go one way or the other.
Islands
Canada has a nice assortment to the north in the Arctic
Ocean.
There are also the Hawaiian islands, but while they are
part of the United States, they are not part of North
America.
All the same, theyre beautiful and I will use this
excuse to put up some beautiful pictures of the
islands.
Great Lakes
Rivers
North America has a very large river system in the
Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio
The Missouri and Ohio rivers flow into the
Mississippi, thus making them tributaries of the
Mississippi