Land & Water
Name any three Southeastern states
Which best describes the Southeast’s usual climate?
Mild and Mild
History of economy: For many years the Southeast’s economy was dependent on growing which crop?
Cotton
Native-English relations: Cockacoeske helped ease tensions between which two groups from the choices given in the study guide?
Pumankey and English
Which city is famous for its food and jazz?
New Orleans
Coasts: The two bodies of water that form the Southeast region’s two coasts are which two?
Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico
Home design: Give one way the Southeast’s climate affects how people build homes.
Spring
Agribusiness example: Which is an example of agribusiness: A. Small family gardens or B. large companies owning huge farms and shipping food worldwide?
B. large companies owning huge farms and shipping food worldwide
Who lived in the Southeast for thousands of years before Europeans arrived — name one group mentioned in the text?
Cherokee, Native Americans
Music genre: The inspiring songs from African American churches sung by Aretha Franklin are part of which music genre?
Gospel
Rivers: Which river forms part of Virginia’s border near Washington, D.C.?
Potomac
Preparedness picture: If a person is filling sandbags before a storm, what are they most likely preparing for?
Flooding or storm surge
Human-changed resource: Which resource is obtained by people changing the environment
Coal mining
Jamestown: Why is Jamestown remembered in early U.S. history?
It was the first successful English Colony
Pittsburgh of the South: Why was Birmingham, Alabama, called the “Pittsburgh of the South”?
It once had a lot of steel manufacturing.
Evidence of habitats: Which example shows people changing land that caused an animal’s decline:
A-cutting down certain pine trees and the loss of the red-cockaded woodpecker
B.wetlands drying causing alligators to disappear?
A-cutting down certain pine trees and the loss of the red-cockaded woodpecker
Hurricanes: Explain, in one sentence appropriate for 4th grade, how a hurricane forms.
Warm ocean air mixes with cooler air to form storms, eventually they may form a tropical storm or even a hurricane.
What kind of fuel (formed from remains of plants and animals millions of years ago) includes coal, oil, and natural gas?
Fossil Fuels
Jefferson titles: State all correct titles for Thomas Jefferson from: Father of his country; Father of the Constitution; First president; Third president; Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Third President, Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Zora Neale Hurston: How did Zora Neale Hurston help spread Southeastern culture?
She wrote about the African American experience in the Southeast.
Bluegrass region: Describe the best features of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region
Rich soil and racing horses
Short answer: List three ways the Southeast climate affects people’s daily lives.
Successful recovery evidence: Which example shows people helped save a species in the Southeast: more than a million American alligators live there — true or false? Explain briefly.
True, they limited hunting and populations grew.
Why was the Cumberland Gap important to United States growth?
It was a pass through the mountains to allow settlers to move west.
How did life change after the Civil War? What was that time period called?
The time period was called reconstruction. It largely failed as segregation replaced slavery as a way of life.