Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
100
An urban area and its suburbs.
What is a metropolitan area.
100
How do glaciers form mountains?
What is by wearing them away.
100
What states make up the Middle Atlantic sub-region?
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
100
Why does the Northeast have 4 seasons?
What is that the Earth spins as it circles the sun. Also, terrible storms called "northeasters".
100
The St. Lawrence Seaway made it possible for ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the ______________ _________.
What is the Great Lakes.
200
A community that is located just outside a city.
What is a suburb.
200
If I was a sweet corn farmer, where would I want to grow my crops?
What is in the Middle Atlantic states.
200
What is a harbor?
What is a sheltered place along a coast where ships can dock.
200
Why do leaves change color in the Northeast during September and October?
What is because of cooling temperatures, green pigment is no longer made in leaves.
200
This is a waterway dug across the land.
What is a canal.
300
A leaf that has fairly wide leaves.
What is a broad-leaf.
300
Name two natural resources that might be found in the Northeast.
What is soil, trees, water, rock and stone.
300
True or false, the Appalachian Mountains are a long chain of mountains only found in the Northeast?
What is false, they are also found in the southeast.
300
What is the soil like in the New England states?
What is rock and thin.
300
What do we call it when people no longer needed to live close to where they work?
What is to commute.
400
Where the hard rock of the mountains and the low plateau meet the softer rock of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
What is a fall line.
400
Why were canals built along the St. Lawrence River?
What is so that ships can travel along the river more easily.
400
The ____________________ Trail is the longest marked footpath in the world.
What is the Appalachian Trail.
400
This is a very hard rock that is used to build buildings.
What is granite.
400
How can seaways and canals help the economy of the Northeast?
What is to increase commerce and trade.
500
A part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land.
What is a bay.
500
What states make up the New England states?
What is Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
500
How has the Atlantic Ocean affected the economy of the Northeast?
What is by increasing trade.
500
True or False, there are thousands of fresh water lakes and underground springs int he Northeast.
What is True.
500
A __________ is something that makes something else happen.
What is a cause.
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