our country’s geography
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United States landforms and waterwaysTRANSCRIPT
OUR COUNTRY’S GEOGRAPHY
“O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountains majesties -from the poem “America the
Above the fruited plain!” Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates
Landform Regions
Geographers often divide the United States into landform regions to better study our country.
Landforms
Landforms are physical features on the Earth’s surface.
Mountains Plains Valleys Waterways
America’s Largest Mountains The Appalachian Mountains and the
Rocky Mountains are the United States’ two largest mountain ranges.
Appalachian Mountain Range
Rocky Mountain Range
Plains
The Coastal Plains and the Interior Plains are the two largest landform regions in the United States.
Coastal Plains
Interior Plains
Valley
Plateau
A broad area of high, mostly flat land
Basin
A low, bowl-shaped land with higher ground all around it
Volcano
BODIES OF WATER
OceansGulfs Bays Lakes Rivers
Oceans
Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
Gulf
A large area of water extending into the land from a larger body of water
Bay
An area of water that extends into the land from a larger body of water
Smaller than a gulf
Lakes
North America has more lakes than any other continent.
Rivers
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
“From Sea to Shining Sea”