Physical Geography

How should Appalachian Plateau be understood?

• All Pennsylvania rivers drain through the same watershed.
• Elevation has no meaningful connection to Pennsylvania climate patterns.
• The Appalachian Plateaus province helps explain the upland terrain of much of northern and western Pennsylvania.
• Lake Erie has no effect on northwestern Pennsylvania’s weather.

Which explanation best fits Piedmont?

• The Appalachian system lies entirely outside Pennsylvania.
• Pennsylvania has uniform physical geography with little regional variation.
• The Piedmont region helps explain agricultural and settlement patterns in southeastern Pennsylvania.
• All Pennsylvania rivers drain through the same watershed.

Which statement best describes Pennsylvania’s physical geography?

• Pennsylvania’s six physiographic provinces reflect differences in geology, elevation, and landform.
• All Pennsylvania rivers drain through the same watershed.
• Pennsylvania has uniform physical geography with little regional variation.
• Physiographic provinces are political districts created by the state legislature.

What is accurate about Ridge and Valley?

• The Appalachian system lies entirely outside Pennsylvania.
• All Pennsylvania rivers drain through the same watershed.
• Lake Erie has no effect on northwestern Pennsylvania’s weather.
• The Ridge and Valley province helps explain the long, parallel mountain-and-valley pattern of central Pennsylvania.