Regions of the United States
New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
What is the Northeast region?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
New York State is located in the ____________ region of the U.S.
Northeast
The lakes all interconnect with waterways and also connect to the Atlantic Ocean through canals and the Hudson River.
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Superior?
The ___________ range from north to south in western North America.
Rocky Mountains
West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida
What is the Southest region?
North, South, East, West
WHat are cardinal directions?
This word means "Ever upward," and it's written on the New York State flag.
What is Excelsior?
Of the five lakes, only ______________ is located entirely in the United States.
Lake Michigan
The mountains are known for their distinct seasons with warm, rainy summers and cold snowy winters.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota
What is the Midwest region?
A symbol used to show cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
Name 5 states in the U.S.
Answers will vary.
When all of the ____________are combined, they make up the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world.
Great Lakes
These mountains are part of a temperate forest biome and are mostly covered with a variety of trees including pine trees, spruce, birch, and maple trees.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona
What is the Southwest?
The Class III teachers decided to the entire grade to Phoenix, Arizona. They traveled (Intermediate direction) _________ to get to their destination.
Southwest
The bluebird.
What is the state bird for New York?
The Great Lakes are in the northern Midwest along the border between two states.
What are Canada and the US?
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Some of the smaller ranges within the ___________ include the Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge Mountains, Green Mountains, White Mountains, Longfellow Mountains, and the Berkshires located in Massachusets.
Appalachian Mountains
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, California, Alaska, Hawaii
What is the West?
Class III took a trip to the Bronx Botanical Garden from Brearley to see the Holiday Train Show! They traveled (Cardinal direction) _________ to get there.
North
In 1788
When was New York founded?
This body of water is the largest of the Great Lakes, covering 31,700 square miles.
What is Lake Superior?
Fill in the blank:
They stretch 3,000 miles north-to-south from New Mexico, across the United States to Montana, and well into Canada.
The Rockies/Rocky Mountains