4. LAND RELIEF AND WATER DISTRIBUTION IN AMERICA

Its average altitude: 650 metres

LOCATE ON THE PHYSICAL MAP THE LAND RELIEF OF AMERICA (and the distribution of water):

MOUNTAINS

- Appalachian Mountains (Montes Apalaches)

- Sierra Madre

- Rocky Mountains (Montañas Rocosas)

- Brazilian Highlands (Meseta Brasileña)

- Andes (Aconcagua 6.961, the highest mountain of America).

- Alaska Mountains (Montes de Alaska).

PENINSULAS

- California

- Labrador

- Florida

- Yucatan.

PLATEAUS

- Colorado

- Patagonia

PLAINS

- Orinoco

- Great Plains (Gran LlanuraNorteamericana)

- Gran Chaco (Llanura Chaco-Pampea).

ISLANDS/ARCHIPELAGOS

- Baffin Island

- Victoria Island

- Galapagos Islands

- Greenland (Groenlandia)

- Puerto Rico

- Cuba

- Jamaica

- Hispaniola

- Bahamas

- Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands)

- Newfoundland Island (Terranova).

CAPES/GULFS/BAYS

- Cape San Lucas

- Cape San Roque

- Cape Horn

- Mexico Gulf

- Gulf of Alaska

- Hudson Bay

- Baffin Bay.

STRAITS

Bering Strait.

RIVERS

- Atlantic watershed : Panama, Amazon, Orinoco, Colorado, Mississippi, Missouri.

- Pacific watershed: Yukon.

- Arctic watershed : Mackenzie.

SEAS AND OCEANS

Atlantic Ocean – Pacific Ocean – Arctic Ocean – Labrador Sea – Caribbean Sea – Beaufort Sea – Bering Sea.