Vocabulary
Basic Facts
Map and Graph Skills
Christmas Trivia
Deeper Facts
100

The official who leads the executive branch of state government

Who is the governor?

100

This is one of the industries in Boston.

What is publishing, high technology, or banking?

100

This is where you would look to see the what symbols on the map mean.

What is the legend or key?

100

In the song "Frosty the Snowman," this is what his nose is made of.

What is a button?

100

This is a reason suburbs grew up around cities.

What is people did not want to live in crowded areas?

200
The part of the government that makes the laws

What is the legislative branch?

200

This is the reason farming is difficult in New England.

What is because the soil is rocky and not always fertile?

200

On a circle graph about population, this is how you can tell which state has the most people.

What is the one with the largest section of the circle?

200

In the song "Silent Night," they describe the night as calm and this.

What is bright?

200

This is an important difference between soil in New England versus soil in the Mid-Atlantic region.

What is rocky and not fertile in New England, but it is much easier to farm in the Mid-Atlantic region?

300

Making goods from other materials

What is manufacturing?

300

This is a reason some people move from the cities to the suburbs in the Mid-Atlantic states.

What is to find less crowded places to live?

300

On a circle graph about population, this is how you can tell that states had about the same number of people living there.

What are states with the same size graph section (or same % listed)?

300

In the song "Santa Baby," this is one of the cars she wants.

What is a Sable or a '54 convertible?

300

This is something Puritan children learned at school.

What is religion and the alphabet with rhymes and religious sayings?

400

An organization that helps others

What is a social institution?

400

This is the branch of state government that writes the laws.

What is the legislative branch?

400

When creating your own circle graph, this is how you would start.

What is by reading the information to find the data or by drawing the lines to divide the circle?

400

In the song "Jingle Bells," this is the name of the reindeer that has bells on it.

What is Bobtail?

400

This is a description of Puritans.

What is the Puritans built the first free school in America?

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