What is an annual festival to celebrate maple syrup?
100
How is Niagara River important to the Northeast Region?
What is the Niagara River provides hydropower plants that captures energy of the flowing water, it is the largest producer of electricity in New York (the state), and its generates enough power to light 24 million 100-watt light bulbs at once.
200
Name three mountain ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the White, Green, and Catskill.
200
Why do grapes grow well in the Finger Lakes?
What is because there is warm air that helps keep it in good growing condition all year?
200
How do many people in Chesapeake Bay make a living?
What is by living off the sea?
200
What are some foods that are grown or produced in the Northeast region?
What is grapes, cranberries, maple syrup, crabs, oysters, fish, and shellfish?
200
How are the Green Mountains and the White Mountains alike and different?
What is they are alike because the both are part of the Appalachian Mountains, get lots of snow, are in the Northeast, and have many ski resorts. They are different because the Green Mountains have many evergreen trees and it runs through Vermont. The White Mountains run through New Hampshire to Maine and are covered with less trees and more snow.
300
What is produced by hydropower plants on the Niagara River?
What is hydroelectricity?
300
Why does it take so long to make maple syrup?
What is because 40 gallons of sap are needed for one gallon of syrup?
300
Name an organization that was created to help save the Bay?
What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?
300
Why is there a need for groups such as the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?
What is because groups like that help protect the environment and the organisms within it?
300
How do you prepare a cranberry bog? (In Order)
What is a swampy land must be cleared, covered with sand, and cranberry plants are then pressed into the sand in the bogs?
400
Name at least two reason that the Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast.
What is because it provides electricity to the region, tourists come and visit.
400
Name some steps in making Maple Syrup.
What is Drilling a hole in a tree and putting a spout in place for the sap to drain from, putting a barrel under the tree for the sap to fall into, shipping the barrel to a sugar plant, boil the sap until the water evaporates and only syrup is left.
400
How does polluted soil get into the bay?
What is rain and snow wash the polluted soil into the rivers that drain in the bay?
400
Name at least three important geographical features in the Northeast.
What is the Catskill Mountains, Green Mountains, White Mountains (Appalachian Mountain Range), Niagara Falls, or Chesapeake Bay.
400
What can the Chesapeake Bay Foundation do to help end pollution and overfishing in the bay?
Various Answers (They can post signs around the water, send out pamphlets/letters to inform people, have meetings, go to schools)
500
How was the Niagara Falls formed?
What is a glacier carved out the Niagara gorge, causing the waterfall?
500
Where did the 1932 and 1980 Olympics take place?
What is Lake Placid, New York?
500
Name two other Bays found in the Northeast, that we read about?
What is the Delaware Bay and the Massachusetts Bay?
500
How can watermen hurt the environment?
What is by over fishing and not following laws or rules about the fish they can catch?
500
How does the coastline of the Northeast change from Maine to New Jersey?
What is it begins in Maine as rugged, rocky and cliffs and then becomes sandy beaches in New Jersey?