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Vocabulary
Challenge
100
You could go here to see a space shuttle launch
What is Kennedy Space Center?
100
You would most likely find strip mines in this area of the Southeast
What is Appalachia or West Virginia?
100
A liquid found under the Gulf of Mexico
What is petroleum?
100
A storm with heavy rains and high winds
What is a hurricane?
100
Name a reliable research source?
What is a government website, a newspaper, an encyclopedia
200
A National Park where you would see more than 300 kinds of birds (and maybe alligators)
What is Everglades National Park?
200
This Southeastern city is known as the birthplace of the blues
What is Memphis?
200
You would visit here to hear Dixieland Jazz and eat Cajun food
What is New Orleans or Louisiana?
200
A flat grassland
What is a savanna?
200
You would see these in an abstract quilt design
What are shapes and patterns?
300
A problem that you might encounter in Jamestown in 1607
What is starvation, diseases, mosquitoes, death, cold? (Accept an reasonable answer)
300
Europeans who first settled in New Orleans came from this country
What is France?
300
Large southern farms where cotton was grown.
What are plantations?
300
A triangle shaped area of land at the end of a river
What is a delta?
300
A Southeast state where you would probably be safe from hurricanes
What is Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas?
400
The traditional music of Appalachia
What is bluegrass?
400
You would visit here to hear Dixieland jazz and eat Cajun food
What is New Orleans or Louisiana?
400
A big word that means "chemicals made from oil"
What is petrochemicals?
400
A natural material found in rock
What is a mineral?
400
The minister who led the protest against segregation on buses
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
500
The name of the hurricane that hit Florida in 1992
What is Hurricane Andrew?
500
This is produced from the coal from Appalachia
What is electricity?
500
The civil rights movement began as a protest against this
What is segregation?
500
An area of lowland that is covered by water?
What is a swamp?
500
A nickname used to describe states that enjoy a year-round climate
What is the Sunbelt?
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