US Physical Features

A large body of water that is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean south of the United States and east of Mexico

• Central Valley

• Gulf of Mexico

• San Francisco Bay

• Lake Superior

This is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. The other four Great Lakes are shared by the U.S. and Canada.

• Lake Michigan

• Lake Erie

• Lake Ontario

• Lake Huron

The large river that forms a border between the US and Mexico

• Brooks Range

• Missouri River

• Ohio River

• Rio Grande

It is the second largest Great Lake by surface area and the fifth largest freshwater lake in the world. It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting the shorelines of its 30,000 islands.

• Great Salt Lake

• Lake Huron

• Lake Michigan

• Lake Ontario

The mountain range that separates California and Nevada

• Missouri Mountains

• Cascades Range

• Rocky Mountains

• Sierra Nevada Mountains

The river that forms a border between Iowa and Nebraska

• Colorado River

• Ohio River

• Missouri River

• Chesapeake Bay

This land feature is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.

• Great Basin

• Cape Cod

• Great Plains

• Coast Ranges

This large body of water surrounds the only island state

• San Francisco Bay

• Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

A system of mountains in the eastern portion of the Unites States from Maine south to Georgia

• Rocky Mountains

• Cascade Mountain Range

• Appalachian Mountains

• Atlantic Coastal Plain

The bay that is just east of the nation's capital

• San Francisco Bay

• New York Harbor

• Charleston Bay

• Chesapeake Bay