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30 Cards in this Set
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Ohio river |
Gateway to the west |
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Columbia River |
explored by lewis and clark |
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Rio Grande River |
forms the borader between mexico and usa |
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Colorado River |
explored by the Spanish |
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Mississippi River |
Used to transport farm and industrial products-most famous |
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Missouri River |
Used to transport farm and industrial products-longest river |
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Atantic Ocean |
served as a highway for explorers and early settlers and immigrants
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Pacific Ocean |
An early exploration destination |
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St. Lawrence River |
Northeasten borader with- connects Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean |
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Gulf Of Mexico |
Provided the french and Spanish with an exploration route to Mexico and America |
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Great Lakes |
Inland port cities grew here in the midwest Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior |
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Lake |
A large inland body of water |
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River |
A large natunal stream of water |
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Tributary |
A smaller stream that flows into a river/ocean/etc |
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Gulf |
A large area of sea or ocean paritally enclosed by land |
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Bay |
A body of water partially enclosed by land |
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Mountain |
A natural elevation of earth's surface having considerable mass ; greater than a hill |
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Hill |
A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain |
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Plain |
A large relatively flat area of land |
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Plateau |
A large, relatively flat, but elevated area of land |
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Island |
A land mass-smaller than a continent surrounded by water |
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Peninsula |
A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland |
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Coastal Range |
Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that streach from California to Canada |
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Basin and Range |
Located west of Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades |
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Rocky Mountains |
Located west of the great plains and east of the basin and range |
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Great plains |
Located west of the Interior lowlands and east of the rocky mountains |
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Interior lowlands |
Located west of the appalachian mounatins and east of the Great plains |
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Appachain highands |
located west of the coastal plaian extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama; includes the piedmont |
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coastal plain |
loacted along the Atlantic Ocean and the gulf of mexico |
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canadian shled |
wrapped around hudson bay in horseshose shape |