the coastal plains
The river which forms part of the border between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean is the Columbia River.
the coastal plains
coastal range
The North American plate collided with the Pacific plate that created the rocky mountains.
the great basin
The Rocky Mountains in North America and Andes Mountains in South America.
rocky mountains
it depends on which mountain in the rocky mountains
The first mountain range west of the Great Plains is the Rocky Mountains. The Rockies stretch for over three thousand miles between parts of Canada, down through Idaho and Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, and New Mexico.
The Great Basin Desert is between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Rocky Mountains.
The two main branches of the Canadian Cordillera are the Coast Mountains and the Rocky Mountains. The Coast Mountains run parallel to the Pacific coast of British Columbia, while the Rocky Mountains extend from British Columbia into Alberta.
Lewis and Clark crossed the Rocky Mountains during their expedition in the early 1800s. They also navigated other mountain ranges, such as the Bitterroot and the Blue Mountains, as they journeyed to the Pacific Ocean.