The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland

1. Find a picture of this region. Post it and explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences.

This is the Great Lake that nears Chicago . The water in lake is blue . And the square of the lake is very large because it looks like seas form picture . Chicago city just behinds the lake , they almost like fuse together .

2. Translate the word escarpment into Chinese or Korean.

陡坡;悬崖;绝壁
内壕

3. What is escarpment? Use 3 sentences to explain what it is.

The broken part of mountains . Maybe earthquakes or other disasters make the mountain broken , and the fracture called escarpment .

4. Find a picture of the Niagara Escarpment in this region.

5. The topography of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland has a rolling landscape made by glaciation. Find a picture of a rolling landscape (it does not have to be in this region) and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.

The vegetation is very abundant here . Grassland covers almost soil and rivers go across . Also some pools adorn . If you look at the distance , you will see some hills . I guess this views called rolling landscape because the land isn't very flat , it ups and downs , looks like "rolling" .

6. What is glaciation? Translate into Chinese or Korean.

冰川

7. Explain in English 3-5 sentences. What is glaciation?

The icebergs get together and become glaciation . It just in cold areas because the ice will melt in warm . The glaciation has large square of ice .

9. Find a picture of glaciation. Explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.

Expect ice and snow , there's nothing . Maybe there's animal like wolves sleeping under the snow . Although you look at the distance , there's also ice , ice and ice .

10. There are also flat plains in this region. What do flat plains look like? Find a picture and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.

There's endless flat plains . Land is very flat , no mountains , no hills ... so it called "flat" plains . There are grasslands , vegetations , may be also some small lake ... The highway goes across the plain.

11. There are also deep river valleys. What do they look like? Find a picture and explain what you see in 3-5 sentences.

I don't know why this picture is called "river" valleys ? It looks really like a sea ! Maybe the Great Lake is so large that makes the deep river valleys like a part of sea ... The water is blue and it is very deep . Maybe there's also some lands .

12. Find a picture of the Great Lakes. Explain what you see in the picture in 3-5 sentences.

This is the topography about the Great Lakes . It has 5 parts in different provinces . The square of it is very big and there 's almost water .

13. What is the name of each Great Lake?
Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.

14. What did you learn about the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowland region?

There ' s many different topography , such as escarpment , rolling landscape , glaciation and flat plains ...