Landforms in the Mid-Atlantic
Region of the US
Overview of Landforms in the region
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Appalachian Plateau
Adirondack Mountains
Low plains along coast
Good harbor for ships
Multiple Lakes & Rivers
Atlantic Ocean
The Jersey Shore
Niagara Falls
• The Piedmont
• The Fall Line
• The Poconos
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Landforms in Delaware
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The Piedmont Regionlow rolling foothills
Marshes
The Great Cypress Swamp
Many rivers- The Delaware,
Christina River,
Brandywine Creek, etc.
Delaware Bay
Beaches
Landforms in Maryland
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Calvert Cliffs
The Piedmont
Marshes
The Eastern shore- plain
gradually rises from the
flatlands to low hills
Pine forests
Low wooded hills
The Alleghenies Mountain
Range
The Blue Ridge Mountains
More than 50 rivers ex: The
Potomac, Patuxent, Patapsco,
Susquehanna, Chester,
Choptank
Landforms in New Jersey
• Hudson River
• Atlantic Ocean
• Kittatinny Mountains (part
of the Appalachians)
• The Appalachians
• Rivers ex: The Passaic,
Raritan, Great Egg Harbor
• Lake Hopatcong – the
largest of New Jersey’s
800 lakes
• The Fall Line
Landforms in New York
• Long Island Beach
• Appalachian Mountains
• 2 of the Great Lakes:
Ontario and Erie
• Thousands of lakes,
formed by glaciers
• The Finger lakes
• The Hudson River and
Mohawk River
• Lake Oneida, Ausable
Lake
• Adirondack Mountains
Landforms in Pennsylvania
• All of Pennsylvania’s Mountains are
part of the Appalachians
• Mountains: Allegheny and Pocono
Mountain Ranges
• The Great Valley – famous for it’s
fertile farmland
• Coastal Plain
• Lake Erie- one of the Great Lakes
• Several Large Lake: Allegheny
Reservoir, Monogahela,
• Rivers: Ohio, Susquehanna
• Over ½ is covered with forest
Landforms in West Virginia
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Known as the mountain state
The Appalachians
Deep valleys
2 panhandles
Chesapeake Bay
 is the largest *estuary in the
United States.
 It lies off the Atlantic Ocean,
surrounded by Maryland and
Virginia.
The Chesapeake Bay's drainage
basin covers 64,299 square miles
(166,534 km2) in the District of
Columbia and parts of six states:
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, and West
*An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body
Virginia.
of water with one or more rivers or streams
 More than 150 rivers and
flowing into it, and with a free connection to
streams drain into the bay.
the open sea.
Hudson River/ Hudson River Valley
The Hudson River valley runs more or less
north to south down the eastern edge of
New York State, cutting through a series of
rock types
To the west lie the extensive Appalachian
highlands.
The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km)
watercourse that flows from north to south
through eastern New York State in the United
States.
The river begins at Henderson Lake in
Newcomb, New York. The river flows
southward past the state capital at Albany and
then eventually forms the boundary between
New York City and the U.S. state of New Jersey
Appalachian Mountain Range
 often called the Appalachians, are a system
of mountains in eastern North America.
These States within the Mid-Atlantic Region
have the range running through them: New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and,
West Virginia
Niagara Falls
 is the collective name for three waterfalls
that straddle the international border between
the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S.
state of New York. They form the southern end
of the Niagara Gorge.
From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls
are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and
the Bridal Veil Falls
The Jersey Shore/Beach
The Jersey shore extends 130 miles along
the Atlantic Ocean, and the beaches feature
casinos, Victorian houses, boardwalks, and
amusement parks.
The Jersey Shore is a popular vacation spot
for both New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians.
Geographically, the term encompasses
about 217 miles of the New Jersey coastal area
from Sandy Hook in the north to Cape May in
the south.
The Piedmont
The Piedmont is a plateau region located in
the eastern United States between the Atlantic
Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian
Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the
north to central Alabama in the south.
Stokes State Forest
Stokes State Forest is a state park
located in Sandyston Township,
Montague and Frankford Twp. in Sussex
County, New Jersey, United States.
Stokes comprises 16,025 acres (64.85
km2) of mountainous woods. The park
is operated and maintained by the New
Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.
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