Land features
This region features high, jagged, snow-capped peaks.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Beaches, bays, harbors, and low flat land are found in this region.
What is the Coastal Plain?
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What is the Coastal Plain?
A safe place for boats and ships
What is a harbor?
It is located at zero degrees latitude
What is the Equator?
It is surrounded on three sides by water; like Florida or Italy.
What is a peninsula?
The Piedmont Region, the Smoky Mountains, and the Blue Ridge Mountains are in this region.
What is the Appalachian Highlands or Appalachian Mountains?
Hudson Bay
What is the Canadian Shield?
Surrounding Antarctica and below 60 South Latitude
What is the Southern Ocean?
It is located at zero degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
It is the lowest point in North America.
What is Death Valley?
Death Valley
What is Basin and Range?
Piedmont
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Smaller than an ocean, its waters borders the southern part of the Coastal Plain
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Lines that run east to west but measure distance north to south
Lines of latitude
These high, flat landforms are found throughout the desert southwest of the United States.
What are plateaus or mesas?
Rivers, and Tornado Alley
What is the Interior Lowland?
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What is the Basin and Range?
Streams and smaller rivers that run into larger rivers, bays, or other bodies of water
What are tributaries?
Where lines of latitude and longitude cross, or intersect
What are coordinates or exact location?
The Panama Canal was created through this type of landform which connects two larger pieces of land and has water on two sides.
What is an isthmus?
Between the Interior Lowlands and the Rocky Mountains
What is the Great Plains?
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What is the Coastal Range?
Found in the Rocky Mountains, this imaginary line indicates the directional flow of rivers.
What is the Continental Divide?
The continent located in the Northern and Western hemispheres
What is North America?