How it works
This 8 geographic regions of North America blank map numbers the regions Virginia's United States history standard names, from the Coastal Plain to the Coastal Range. Print it with a blank line for each name, or with the names written on.
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The eight regions, east to west
Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, Coastal Range. The Canadian Shield lies north of them, around Hudson Bay. The sheet opens numbered, with a line for each name. Named writes the names on the map; Blank takes the numbers off.
Where the map and the standard differ
The standard's Coastal Range includes the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, and its Basin and Range fills the land between them and the Rocky Mountains. This map numbers one shaded area for each, and shades those ranges and the plateaus and deserts beside them as areas of their own, with no number.
- From the Atlantic coast, each region lies west of the one before it.
Questions and answers
What are the eight geographic regions of North America?
Coastal Plain, Appalachian Mountains, Canadian Shield, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, and Coastal Range. The list is from Virginia's school standard for United States history to 1865.
Which region wraps around Hudson Bay?
The Canadian Shield. The standard describes a horseshoe of hills worn down by erosion, with hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers.
Which region holds the Continental Divide?
The Rocky Mountains. Rivers west of the divide drain to the Pacific Ocean; rivers east of it drain to the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
Where is the lowest point in North America?
In Death Valley, in the Basin and Range. The lowest ground there is called Badwater Basin.