What is the difference between a physiographic realm and a physiographic region?

Physiographic realm covers a broader area and is less detailed while having uniform landscapes and landforms.

Describe the Canadian Shield and identify its region(s).

• One of the physiographic realms of North America
• Covered with thin layers of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock
• Is the original core of North America
• 1 region - the Arctic Coastal Plain - runs south of the Hudson Bay and Arctic Coast.

Describe the Interior Plains, and identify the regions that are a part of it.

• Part of the physiographic realm of North America.
• Underlain by sedimentary rocks
• Low relief to "Wave-Like" hills
• Regions are Great Plains, Interior Lowlands, and Interior Highlands

What makes the great plains region unique to the interior plains?

more arid and grassland than any other region in the interior plains.

Describe the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains of the interior highlands. 

• Ozark - domed sedimentary strata
• Ouachita - folded, ridge-valley type mountains

Describe the Appalachian Highlands.

• Characterized by elongated ridges in a parallel zig-zag pattern
• Starts in AL and GA, goes as far as the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
• One of the physiographic realms of North America

What marks the Appalachian Plateau?

Alleghany and Cumberland Escarpments

Identify features of the Ridge and Valley Region.

Parallel ridges with numerous anticlines and synclines, eastern end is in the Great Valley of the Appalachians.

What does the Blue Ridge Region contain?

Highly metamorphic, ancient, crystalline rock

What is the Piedmont and what notable feature is part of this region?

"Foothills" of the Appalachians; eastern edge is the Fall Line

Identify the underlaying rocks and the highest elevation of the southern Rocky Mountains.

• Crystalline rock with upturned sedimentary strata
• Elevations higher than 14,000 ft asl

Describe the Middle Rocky Mountains.

Fault-block mountains with anticlinal uplifts of sedimentary rocks.

What mountain range is part of the middle rocky mountains region?

Tetons

Describe the Northern Rocky Mountains region.

Contains large batholiths, folded sedimentary strata, and extrusive volcanism.

What is significant about the Columbia Plateau?

One of the world's largest lava surfaces.

Describe the Colorado Plateau

Arid with flat horizontal sedimentary strata

What important landmark is part of the Colorado Plateau?

Grand Canyon

Describe the Basin Range.

Highly faulted area with a lot of horsts and grabens.

Describe the Pacific and Valley Mountain Region.

• North - South parallel ridges and mountains
• Important Feature - plate boundary between the pacific and north american plates and the San Andreas Fault Zone

Describe the Gulf - Atlantic Coastal Plain

Elevations below 1000 feet, low relief, southern half of Georgia lies on this plain

Describe the Central American Mountains Region.

Convergent plate boundary zone dominated by volcanos and volcanic landforms

What states are a part of the South East Region of the United States

NC, SC, TN, GA, AL MS, FL

Identify the Regions of Georgia

1. Appalachian Plateau - Far NW corner of the state
2. Ridge and Valley 
3. Blue Ridge - location of Dahlonega, Location of Brasstown Bald
4. Piedmont - Athens, Atlanta, Gainesville
5. Southern half of the state