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==On a map of the world, locate North America. On a map of North America, locate the United States, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi and Rio Grande Rivers, the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and the Rocky and Appalachian Mountain ranges.==

For information on the major mountain ranges and river systems of the world, see Massachusetts frameworks 2.5 and 2.4

Click here for an NPR podcast on the age of the Grand Canyon.





Click here for a geography lesson plan that can be applied to this standard