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Option 2 : 1 and 3
The correct answer is option 2, i.e, 1 and 3.
- Western Coastal Plain:
- It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean with a 2080 km coast and 12369 km shoreline.
- Pacific coastal plain is much narrower than the eastern coastal plain.
- California, Oregon and Washington lies along the Pacific coast.
- The Spaniards were the first to explore the Pacific Coast following Vasco Nunez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
- North of California lay the Oregon Country, a region as large as Alaska.
- And possessing strikingly varied physical features, soil and climate bound together by the Columbia River.
- It was inhabited by native peoples belonging to several culture areas and language families.
- It includes California Indians, the Salishan and Nadene , the Eskimo Aleut groups of Bering Sea and the Columbia Plateau.
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