Transcript From SEA to SEA - Brandon Valley School District

From SEA to SEA
A Varied Land
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Our country is BIG!
3,000 miles from coast to coast
Made up of many landforms
Has Many resources
– Forests, farmland, coal, oil, minerals
– What is a mineral?
minerals
• A resource found in nature
– Iron, silver, copper, gold
Lets fly over our country!
In the EAST!
• Atlantic coast
– Low and flat
– Beaches
– Once were all forests and now towns
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains
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Very old mountains
They once had high, sharp peaks
Over the years they became rounded
Why???
Moving into the plains
• The land is flat again past the Appalachian
• The soil is rich and farming is good!
• Colorful fields!
Great Lakes
• From up above they look like giant puddles!
• Formed by glaciers and ice melting
In the west!
• Rocky mountains!
• They stretch from Alaska to New Mexico
• They are higher, sharper and formed
thousands of years ago
Weather
• Since our country is so large-the weather is so
different!
• Ecosystems are different