. Elementary physical geography;. e of their features of surface and climate, each regionhas become a great centre of industries that are peculiar to it. The boundaries of these regions are both topographic andclimatic, and the regions themselves differ from one anotherin either climate or topography, or in both. Roughly speak-ing, the groups of states commonly recognized do not differvery greatly from the industrial groups that result fromdiverse conditions of climate and topography. The following are the principal physiographic and in-dustrial regions: The New England Plateau, including thee
. Elementary physical geography;. e of their features of surface and climate, each regionhas become a great centre of industries that are peculiar to it. The boundaries of these regions are both topographic andclimatic, and the regions themselves differ from one anotherin either climate or topography, or in both. Roughly speak-ing, the groups of states commonly recognized do not differvery greatly from the industrial groups that result fromdiverse conditions of climate and topography. The following are the principal physiographic and in-dustrial regions: The New England Plateau, including theeastern part of New York; the Middle Atlantic States,including the Atlantic Coast Plain and the middle andsouthern Appalachian Highlands; the Great Central Plain,including the regions commonly known as the NorthernStates and the Southern States; the Western Highlands,including the region west of the 2,000-foot contour, theRocky Mountains, the Columbia Plateau, the ColoradoPlateau, the Basin, the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Moun- 352. 354 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY tains; and the Pacific Coast Region. Make a list of these,grouping each subdivision under its principal division. The New England Plateau. — This region embracesthe northern Appalachian folds, together with areas thatbelong to the Laurentian highlands. During the Glacialepoch the Appalachian folds in places were almost ob-literated. The Green, White, Adirondack, and Catskill
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