USA AREA STUDIES

Outline: Chapter 3

 

1A. LAND AND CLIMATE

            Mountains                  - Appalachians in the east; Sierra Nevada’s and Rocky Mountains in the west’ Cascades in the northwest.

Air Masses                - southward from Canada; north & eastward from the Atlantic Ocean & Gulf of Mexico; westward from the Pacific Ocean.

 

B. Tropical Savanna                      - write in >

 

 

C. Humid Subtropical        - write in >

 

 

D. Humid Continental Warm Summer   - write in >

 

 

E. Humid Continental Cool Summer     - write in >

 

 

F. Steppe                              - write in >

 

 

G. Desert                               - write in >

 

 

H. Western High Areas     - write in >

 

 

I. Mediterranean                  - write in >

 

 

J. Marine West coast         - write in >

 

 

K.  Sub Arctic                      - write in >

 

 

L. Tundra                              - write in >

 

 

M. Oceanic                           write in >

 

 

 

 

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