Geographic Review

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Geographic Review
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Coastal Plain

• Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors
• Old eroded mountains
• Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes
  carved by glaciers

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Appalachian Mountains

• Located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of
  Mexico
• Holds some of the oldest rock formations in North
  America
• Old eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in
  North America)

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Canadian Shield

• Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes
  carved by glaciers
• Rolling flatlands with many rivers
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation
  westward

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Interior Lowlands

• Located west of the Appalachian Mountains and
  east of the Great Plains
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation
  westward
• Wrapped around Hudson Bay

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Great Plains

• Rolling flatlands with many rivers
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation
  westward
• Wrapped around Hudson Bay

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Rocky Mountains

• Rugged mountains stretching from Alaska to Mexico
• Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes
  carved by glaciers
• Wrapped around Hudson Bay

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Basin and Range

• West of the Rocky Mountains and east of the
  Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades
• Rugged mountains that contain fertile valleys
• Lowlands located between mountain chains

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What is the lowest point in North America?

• Death Valley
• Great Lakes
• Low Valley

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What are the lakes called that provided inland
ports in the Midwest?

• Gulf of Mexico
• Great Lakes
• Midwest Lakes

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What is the name of the Gulf located in the
southern United States?

• Gulf of Mexico
• Gulf of the United States
• Gulf of Panama

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What river is called the gateway to the west?

• The Ohio River
• The Mississippi
• The James River

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Who explored the Columbia River?

• The Spanish
• The French
• Lewis and Clark

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Who explored the Colorado River?

• Lewis and Clark
• The Spanish
• The French

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What river forms the border between the US and
Mexico?

• The James River
• The Rio Grande
• The Mississippi River