USI.2C Bodies of Water

Transports industrial and farm products to the Gulf of Mexico and is considered a

transportation artery.

• Mississippi River

• Missouri River

• Colorado River

• Columbia RIver

Known as the “Gateway to the West” because it helped settlers travel from the east to the

west.

• Ohio River

• Atlantic Ocean

• Rio Grande River

• Pacific Ocean

Many inland port cities were established along the shores of these bodies of water.

• Great Lakes

• Gulf of Mexico

• St. Lawrence River

• Missouri River

This is known as the “Highway for early explorers, settlers and immigrants.”

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Great Lakes

Forms a partial border between Eastern Canada and the state of New York.

• St. Lawrence River

• Great Lakes

• Ohio River

• Rio Grande River

This body of water was used by explorers and is known as “an early exploration route.”

• Pacific Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

The Spanish used this water route that flows from the Rocky Mountains into the Pacific.

• Colorado River

• Columbia River

• Rio Grande River

• Missouri River

Transportation artery carrying farm and industrial products into the Mississippi River.

• Missouri River

• Mississippi River

• Gulf of Mexico

• Columbia River

The western-most river explored by Lewis and Clark that flows from Canada to the Pacific.

• Columbia River

• Colorado River

• Ohio River

• Missouri River

The French and Spanish explored this body of water that connects to the Atlantic Ocean.

• Gulf of Mexico

• Great Lakes

• St. Lawrence River

• Ohio River