ROCKY MOUNTAINS

INFORMATION

• The Rocky Mountains are located between the Great Plains in the east

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

INFORMATION

• The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period.

GREAT PLAINS

INFORMATION

• The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.

GREAT LAKES

INFORMATION

• The Great Lakes, also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER

INFORMATION

• The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

GULF OF MEXICO

INFORMATION

• The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.