Geographic Regions Flashcards
What are geographic features
related to?
Patterns of Trade
Westward Movement
Locations of Cities and Towns
Agriculture and Fishing Industries
What are the physical characteristics of the Coastal Plains?
Broad lowlands providing many excellent harbors
Where are the Appalachian Mnts. ?
West of Coastal Plain, extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama
Where is the Canadian Shield?
wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape
Where are the Interior Lowlands?
West of the Appalachian Mnts. And east o the Great Plains
What are the physical characteristics of the Appalachian Mnts.?
Old, eroded mountains
What are the physical characteristics of the Interior Lowlands?
Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys, and grassy hills
What are the physical characteristics of the Canadian Shield?
Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes carve by glaciers
Where is the Rocky Mnts.?
West of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range
What are the physical characteristics of the Great Plains?
Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward
Where is the Basin and Range?
Located west of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades
What are the physical characteristics of the Rocky Mnts.?
Rugged Mountains stretching from Alaska almost to Mexico, high elevations
Where is the Coastal Range?
Along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada
What are the physical characteristics of the Basin and Range?
Area of varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges
What are the physical characteristics of the Coastal Range?
Rugged mountains and fertile valleys
