Geography Regions
• Located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico • Broad lowlands, providing many excellent harbors
What is Coastal Plain
An area of flat land
What is a Plain
The United States is located on what continent?
What is North America
The longest river in America
What is the Missouri River
Flat lands that gradually increase in elevation westward; grasslands
What is the Great Plains
Located along the Pacific Coast, stretching from California to Canada • Rugged mountains and fertile valleys • Includes the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades
What is Coastal Range
A tall landform that has a peak at the top.
What is a Mountain or hill
Which is the only continent that is completely in the Western Hemisphere?
What is South America
The river considered the gateway to the west.
What is the Ohio River
Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys, and grassy hills
What are the Interior Lowlands
• Located west of the Coastal Plain, extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama; includes the Piedmont • Old, eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in North America)
What are the Appalachian Mountains
An area of flat land that is higher than its surrounding land?
What is Plateau
Name the five oceans.
What is Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern
The rivers used to transport farm and industrial equipment.
Bonus if you can explain why.
What is the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
Wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape • Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers
What is the Canadian Shield
Rugged mountains stretching from Alaska almost to Mexico; high elevations • Contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers
What are the Rocky Mountains
What is a water feature surrounded on three sides by land?
What is a Bay/Gulf?
Which two continents are completely located in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Australia and Antarctica
The river that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Saint Lawrence River
The river that flows from the Rocky Mountains through the Great Plains and into the Interior Lowlands.
What is the Missouri River
Varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America
What is the Basin and Range
A flowing body of water that feeds into a larger flowing body of water which will eventually release into a gulf, lake, or ocean.
What is a Tributary
Name all seven Continents
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica
The two rivers explored by the Spanish.
What are the Colorado River and the Rio Grande river
Name all eight regions
What is Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, Interior Lowlands, Canadian Shield, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, and Coastal Range?