Geography of North America Vocabulary

The river dividing the U.S. and Mexico

• Rio Grande River

• Mississippi River

• Missouri River

• Colorado River

End point of the Rio Grande and the Mississippi River

• Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Pacific Ocean

• Red Sea

Largest river flowing in the southwestern United States

• Mississippi River

• Rio Grande River

• Hudson River

• Colorado River

The river that flows from the north to the south in the center portion of the United States

• Missouri River

• Mississippi River

• Snake River

• Platte River

The river that creates the boarder between Kentucky and Ohio and empties into the Mississippi River

• Colorado River

• St. Lawrence River

• Ohio River

• Missouri River

The river that connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean

• Missouri River

• St. Lawrence River

• Hudson River

• Tennessee River

The body of water southeast of the Gulf of Mexico in which there are many islands

• Caribbean Sea

• Red Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Black Sea

The piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides in the southeastern United States

• Florida Peninsula

• Baja Peninsula

• Italian Peninsula

• Iberian Peninsula

a dry desert region in the western U.S. east of the Sierra Nevada Mts and west of the Rocky Mts.

• Great Plains

• Great Basin

• Coastal Plain

• Canadian Shield

Mountain chain located east of the Great Basin and west of the Great Plains in the western U.S.

• Rocky Mts.

• Coastal Mts.

• Sierra Nevada Mts.

• Appalachian Mts.