1. Major Mountain Ranges and Rivers of the United States

2. Standard SS3G1 The student will locate major topographical features.
a. Identify major rivers of the United States of America: Missisippi, Ohio, Rio Grande, Colorado, Hudson.
b. Identify major mountain ranges of the United States of America: Appalachian, Rocky.

3. Colorado River
Runs through: Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California
Major river of the Southwestern United States

4. Rio Grande River It starts in the Rocky Mountains
Flows through the entire state of New Mexico, Colorado, and around the entire southern boarder of Texas

5. Mississippi River
The Mississippi River lies in the following ten US states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota

6. Ohio River Runs through Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio
Largest tributary to the Mississippi River. It is 981 miles long.

7. Hudson River
It is located in New York, flows north to south. It also forms the boarder of New York and Mexico
It is 315 miles long

8. Mnemonic for Rivers C R M O H

9. Appalachian Mountains
Runs through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York

10. Rocky Mountains
This mountain range runs through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico