Regions of the U.S.
Bodies of Water
Rivers
Landforms
Water-Related Features
Random Facts
100
This region is located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Coastal Plain?
100
This body of water is west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This river divides the U.S. and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
100
This landform, like this picture, is a large, natural elevation with steep sides.
What is a mountain?
100
This is a large body of salty water.
What is an ocean?
100
This invisible line runs east and west, separating the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is latitude?
200
The region stretches from Canada to Mexico.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200
This is the most recently added ocean.
What is the Southern Ocean?
200
This is the longest river in North America
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This landform is large, flat, grasslands.
What is the plains?
200
These are large areas of water partially enclosed by land.
What are gulfs and bays?
200
This river flows into the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
What is the Missouri River?
300
This region has rolling flatlands with many rivers, river valleys and grassy hills.
What is the Interior Lowlands?
300
This is the body of water located east of the Coastal Plain.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This river is in the far northwest part of the Continental United States.
What is the Columbia River?
300
This land mass is entirely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
300
This is a large, inland body of water.
What is a lake?
300
These are the five oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian and Southern oceans?
400
This region has varying elevations and Death Valley; the lowest point in North America.
What is Basin and Range?
400
The Canadian Shield wraps around this bay.
What is Hudson Bay?
400
This river flows through the west and carved out the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
400
These are smaller, natural elevations, not as high as mountains.
What are hills?
400
These are large, natural streams of water that empty into an ocean, lake or other body of water.
What are rivers?
400
This is the name of the line that runs north and south at "0" degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This region contains the oldest mountains in North America.
What is the Appalacian Highlands?
500
These are the Great Lakes (use the "homes" mnemonic).
What is Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Superior?
500
This river connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
500
This is an elevated, but level, area of land.
What is plateaus?
500
These are streams or rivers that flow into a larger stream, river or other body of water.
What are tributaries?
500
These are the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica and Australia.