The Early Years
Geography
Electricity & Coal
Vocabulary
Hodge Podge
100
The man who discovered a pass across the Appalachian Mountains.
Who is Daniel Boone?
100

An opening between two mountains.

What is a gap or pass?

100
Water is heated to make this.
What is steam?
100
A metal used to make things that are light and strong.
What is aluminum?
100
The first lasting settlement the English made in Virginia?
What is Jamestown?
200
The crop the settlers grew to sell back in England.
What is tobacco?
200

The mountain range that stretches from West Virginia to Tennessee.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

200
If coal is DEEP underground this form of mining is used.
What is underground mining?
200
Land that is low and wet with many plants and grasses.
What is a marsh?
200
The leader of the Jamestown settlers.
Who is Captain John Smith?
300
The group of people the Jamestown settlers fought with.
Who are the Native Americans?
300
The lake that is formed behind a dam.
What is a reservoir?
300
The name for a tunnel that miners use to access mines.
What are shafts?
300
A city where planes or trains stop on their way to other places.
What is a hub?
300
These are three states in the Appalachian and Atlantic Coast region.
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia?
400
The first attempt by the English to settle on the Atlantic Coast was in a part of North Carolina called...
What is Roanoke Island?
400
A place where the land changes and rivers drop from high to low.
What is a fall line?
400
When coal is right under the SURFACE of the earth this type of mining is used.
What is strip mining?
400
A place where people go to relax and have fun.
What is a resort?
400
These are natural geographic landmarks that are usually found along a fall line.
What are waterfalls?
500
Since the colonists on Roanoke Island disappeared it is sometimes known as...
What is the "Lost Colony?"
500
The group created by the government to control flooding and make dams in the Tennessee area...
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
After strip mining an area, miners do this to return the earth to its natural condition.
What is reclaiming?
500
What a person does for a living.
What is an occupation?
500

Describe a way that Pocahontas showed compassion to others around her.

Name any act that shows compassion. Some examples. *Stories of her providing support to the colonists at Jamestown when they were starving. *Stories of her stepping in to save John Smith's life when he was going to be killed by Pocahontas' father. 

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