1. What are physical features?
(as it pertains to land)
Definition: Natural occurring features of the Earth.
Watch this before moving on!

2. There are some
United States
physical features
that you need to
know!

3. What is
this?

5. Grand
Canyon

6. Salton Sea. There is a sea located in southern California. Its
name is the
Salton Sea.

7. Salton Sea? What is special about the Watch the 2nd video on the page.

8. Salton Sea

9. This is a famous lake located
in Utah.
Do you know its name?

10. Great
Salt
Lake

11. Great Salt Lake Facts
The largest U.S. lake west of the Mississippi River
The 4th largest terminal lake (no outlet) in the world
A remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric freshwater lake that was 10 times larger than GSL
About 75 miles long, and 28 miles wide, and covers 1,700 square miles
Has a maximum depth of about 35 feet
Typically 3 to 5 times saltier than the ocean
Fish free, the largest aquatic critters are brine shrimp and brine flies
One of the largest migratory bird magnets in Western North America

12. Great
Salt
Lake

13. One more physical feature.
Do you know what this is?
Yes, it is a desert,....but which
desert?

14. Mojave Desert

15. Great Salt
Lake
Grand Canyon
Mohave
Desert
Salton
Sea

16. Get out a piece of paper and number to four
Get out a piece of paper and number to four. Write the name of these physical features.

17. Mojave Desert
Great Salt Lake
Salton Sea
Grand Canyon