United States landforms and waterways

1. 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

2. Landform Regions Geographers often divide the United States into landform regions to better study our country.

3. Landforms Landforms are physical features on the Earth’s surface. Mountains Plains Valleys Waterways

4. America’s Largest Mountains The Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains are the United States’ two largest mountain ranges.

5. Appalachian Mountain Range

6. Rocky Mountain Range

7. Plains The Coastal Plains and the Interior Plains are the two largest landform regions in the United States.

8. Coastal Plains

9. Interior Plains

10. Valley

11. Plateau A broad area of high, mostly flat land

12. Basin A low, bowl-shaped land with higher ground all around it

13. Volcano

14. Bodies of water Oceans Gulfs Bays Lakes Rivers

15. Oceans Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

16. Gulf A large area of water extending into the land from a larger body of water

17. Bay An area of water that extends into the land from a larger body of water Smaller than a gulf

18. Lakes North America has more lakes than any other continent.

19. Rivers

20. America the beautiful “From Sea to Shining Sea”