Question

Analyze the map below and answer the question that follows.
A map of the United States. A yellow circle is on the east coast. A blue circle is on the west coast. A purple circle is on the west coast but east of the blue circle.
Image by the National Atlas of the US

The mountains circled in yellow on the map above are the __________.
A.
Pacific Mountains
B.
Appalachian Mountains
C.
Rocky Mountains
D.
Continental Divide

Answer 1

B. Appalachian Mountains

They run along the eastern U.S. coast (from Alabama northeast to Maine), so the yellow-circled mountains on the east coast are the Appalachians.