US Regions

What region is the red shaded area in North America?

• Pacific Northwest
• Appalachian Mountain Range
• Rocky Mountain Range
• The West

What region is the red shaded area of the United States?

• Atlantic North
• Midwest
• Mid-Atlantic
• Northeast

Which region has the smallest area of land in the US?

• Midwest
• Atlantic Ocean
• Southeast
• Northeast

Which region do you live in? 

• North America
• Ohio
• Midwest
• Northwest

Alaska and Hawaii belong to which US Region?

• Pacific 
• West
• Northeast
• Southwest

What is true of the Great Lakes?

• serve as a natural border between the United States and Mexico
• cause the climate around them to be warm and dry
• combine to make the largest body of fresh water in the world
• make it easy to transport goods to the West Coast

What words describe the Great Plains?

• areas of hills and mountains
• low, flat areas of land
• an area between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada Mountains
• flat areas of high elevation

What describes the Coastal Plain?

• an area that includes Hudson Bay, hills, basins, lakes, swamps, and islands
• an area that includes mountains
• an area that includes the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Cape Cod, and the Yucatan Peninsula
• an area that includes mountain ranges separated by flat desert plains and basins

What describes the Appalachians?

• an area that includes Hudson Bay, hills, basins, lakes, swamps, and islands
• an area that includes mountains
• an area that includes the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Cape Cod, and the Yucatan Peninsula
• an area that includes mountain ranges separated by flat desert plains and basins

What describes the Rocky Mountains?

• extends from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New York all the way to Greenland
• extend from central Saskatchewan, in Canada, south to the Coastal Plain and are bounded by the Great Plains on the west, the Canadian Shield on the north and east, and the Appalachian Mountains on the east.
• almost all of Nevada, western Utah, southeastern California, and portions of Arizona and northwestern Mexico
• stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia southward to New Mexico, a distance of some 3,000 miles