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US Geographic Regions
US Geographic Regions
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History
6th Grade
08/29/2012

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Term
Coastal Range
Definition
Located along the Pacific Coast, stretching from California to Canada
Term
Basin and Range
Definition

Located west of the Rocky Mountians and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades

 

Physical Characteristics

Varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America

Term
Rocky Mountains
Definition

Located west of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range

 

Physical Characteristics

Rugged Mountains stretching form Alaska almost to Mexico

High Elevations

Contains the Continental Divide which determines the directinal flow of rivers. 

Term
Great Plains
Definition

Located West of the Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains

 

Physical Characteristics

Flat lands that gradulaly increase in elevation westward

Grasslands

 

Term
Interiror Lowlands
Definition

Located west of the Appalachian Mountians and east of the Great Plains

 

Physical Characteristics

 

Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valley,s and grassy hills

Term

Canadian Shield

 

Definition

Location

Wrapped around Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape

 

Physical Characteristics

 

Hills worn by erosion and hubdreds of lakes carved by glaciers

 

Term
Appalachian Highlands
Definition

Located west of the Coastal Plain, extending form eastern Canada to western Alabama

Ihncludes the Piedmont

 

Physical Characteristic s

 

Old Eroded mountains

oldest mountain range in North America

Term
Coastal Plain
Definition

Located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

 

Physical Characteristics

 

Broad lowlands providing many excellent harbors

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