Vocabulary
This has low land that lies along an ocean
What is a coastal plain?
These mountains are on the Atlantic Coast.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These mountain ranges are along the Pacific Coast
What are the:
Cascade Range
Coastal Range
Sierra Nevada
this mountain range is Spanish for "snowy mountain range"
a river and its tributaries make up this.
What is a river system?
this flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
These plains describe the Atlantic Coast
What are the Coastal Plains?
These Mountains are on the Pacific Coast.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The interior plains cover this part of the United States.
What are the Interior Plains?
deepest part of a river that carves a path through the land
Florida is one of these
What is a peninsula?
These mountain stretch from Alabama to southeastern Canada.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
These mountains stretch from New Mexico through Canada and into Alaska
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This land is bowl shaped with high ground around it
What is a basin?
The three main parts of a river
rich land
What is fertile?
What is flat?
River in the Grand Canyon
this a deep narrow valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
the wearing away of the Earth's surface
What is erosion?
this is triangle-shaped land at a river's mouth.
What is a delta
Savannah's landforms is much like that of the Atlantic Coast. This landform is the ______________
What is rocky and rugged?
What is a plateau?
This controls river flooding.
What is a levee?
OR
What is a dam?