Region Name
Location
Physical Features
1. Many harbors
Coastal Plain
Located along the Atlantic
Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
2. Broad lowland
Appalachian
Highlands
Located west of the
Coastal Plain
1. Oldest mountain range in North
America
2. Eastern Canada to western Alabama
3. eroded
1. Rolling flatlands
Interior Lowlands
Located west of the
Appalachian Highlands
and east of the Great
Plains
2. River valleys
3. Many rivers
1. Grasslands
Great Plains
Located west of the
Interior Lowlands and
east of the Rocky
Mountains
2. Flat land that gradually increases in
elevation westward
Region Name
Location
Physical Features
1. Rugged mountains
Rocky Mountains
Located west of the
Great Plains and east of
the Basin and Range
2. Alaska almost to Mexico
3. High elevations
4. Continental Divide determines which
direction a river flows
Basin and Range
Located west of the Rocky
Mountains and east of the
Sierra Nevadas and the
Cascades
1. varying elevations containing isolated
mountain ranges
2. Death Valley, the lowest point in North
America
1. rugged mountains and fertile valleys
Coastal Range
Located along the Pacific
Coast, stretching from
California to Canada
1. hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers
Canadian Shield
Wrapped around the
Hudson Bay in a horseshoe
shape
2. Hills worn by erosion