The Land

Match the following

• landform region

• The gradual wearing away of the Earth's surface

• climate

• A group of connected mountains

• John Denver

• A region that has similar landforms throughout

• erosion

• Sang: Take Me Home Country Roads

• mountain

  range

• The kinds of weather a place has over a long time

​ Dividing the country into landform regions makes it easier to ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   different parts of the country.

• compare
• contrast
• equal

The ​ (a)   plain begins along the coast of ​ (b)   as a strip of land no more than 10 miles wide.

• coastal
• Massachusetts
• Kansas

​ (a)   means "at the base of a ​ (b)  

• Piedmont
• mountain.
• ocean

The tree-covered ​ (a)   are the oldest mountains in the United States.

• Appalachians
• Rockies
• Himalayas
• Alaska

An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly by grasses.

The United State's largest and longest mountain range.

At the edge of the Great Basin lies ​ (a)   This is the lowest land in North America. Part of this is more than 250 feet below sea level.

• Death Valley, California.
• Erie, Pennsylvania
• Niagara Falls, New York

Where would you like to travel in the United States?

Sierra Nevada is Spanish for

• snowy mountain

• low mountain

• central valley

• flat land