Between what two Great Lakes is Niagara Falls located?
What is Lake Erie and Ontario?
100
What is the largest of the finger lakes?
What is Lake Seneca?
100
How do many families in the Chesapeake Bay area make a living?
What is by harvesting the sea?
100
Suppose you are a member of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. What can you do to help end the pollution and overfishing of the bay?
What is you could come up with a plan to help end the pollution and overfishing? (On the test you will have to come up with some type of plan and explain it)
200
What is a reason why Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast?
What is because it provides electricity in the region to help power people's homes and jobs and people spend money to visit the area?
200
Why do grapes grow so well in the finger lakes?
What is because warm air surrounds the Finger Lakes, creating the right conditions for the grape's long growing season.
200
What are the people who fish in Chesapeake Bay called?
What are watermen(women)?
200
What are the events in order to prepare a cranberry bog?
What is the swampy land must be leveled and cleared? Then it is covered with sand for good drainage. Next cranberry plants are then pressed into the sand in the bogs.
300
What is produced by hydropower plants on the Niagara River?
What is hydroelectricity?
300
How is water important for growing cranberries?
What is because water freezes over the bogs in the winter to help protect the plants, water protects the plants against insects and disease in the spring, as well as in the fall air pockets cause cranberries to rise when they are flooded?
300
How does soil around Chesapeake Bay get polluted?
What is some factories dump waste onto the land?
300
How are the Green Mountains and the White Mountains alike?
What is both mountains make up part of the Appalachian Mountains, receive heavy snowfall, and have many ski resorts to attract different tourists?
400
What mountain ranges help make up the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the White, Green, and Catskill Mountains?
400
Why does it take so many hours to make maple syrup?
What is because about 40 gallons of sap is needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup?
400
How does polluted soil get into Chesapeake Bay?
What is rain and snow wash the soil into rivers that drain into the bay?
400
How are the Green Mountains and White Mountains different?
What is the Green Mountains are named for their evergreen forests and run through Vermont? The White Mountains are named for their snow-covered peaks and extend from New Hampshire into the western part of Maine.
500
Which Northeast states share a border with with the Atlantic Ocean?
What is Delaware, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
500
What are key steps in making maple syrup?
What is sap being emptied into a large barrel and taken to a sugar house, a hole drilled into a tree and a spout being placed in the hole, and sap being boiled until water evaporates and pure maple syrup remains?
500
What is one way in which people have tried to help save the bay?
What is by creating the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to educate people about the environment?
500
What are three reasons that the Niagara River is important to the people in the Northeast region?
What is hydropower plants on the Niagara River capture the energy of the flowing water to run miles and machines; Niagara is the largest producer of electricity in New York State; Niagara generate enough power to light 24 million 100-watt light bulbs at once.