LandForm

The region whose eastern edge touches the coastal Plain in many places is called the Appalachian Highlands. The Appalachian Highland region has high hills and low, rounded mountains. The Highlands touch the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the north. To the south, they form a barrier that separates the Coastal Plain from a third region called the Eastern Plains. The Eastern Plains Region is made up of flat lands or gently rolling hills. These plains surround the Great Lakes in the northcentral United States.

The Great Plains Region, to the west of the Eastern Plains, stretches from the Canadian border in the north to the Mexican border in the south. The Coastal Plains, the Eastern Plains, And the Eastern Plains, and the Great Plains from one of the largest stretches or flat land in the World.

West of the Great Plains is a large area of high land that can be divided in to two parts: the Rocky Mountain Region and the western Plateau Region.

The Western Plateau has some plains and some mountains.

The Rocky mountain region is an area of some of the roughest, highs peaks in the world. Except for a few passes that wind through the mountains for miles, the Rockies separate the Great Plains Region and the Western Plateau Region.

Along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Mountain Region runs from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. In some places, the mountains are very high and rough. In other places, large valleys lie between the mountains. Sometimes the valley floors are flat areas much like small plains.

Finally, two areas that are part of the United States are not physically joined to it. They are the areas called Hawaii and Alaska.

The island called Hawaii are the tips of giant mountains. Their bottoms are on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. People generally think of them as being part of the Pacific Mountain Region.

Alaska is a peninsula with four kinds of landform:

Pacific Mountain, Central Highland, the brooks Mountain Region, and a think band of flat land called the Arctic Plains Region.