The Bay
Resources
Water
Mountains
Other
100
How can people help end pollution and overfishing?
Help the Chesapeake Bay foundation, throw fish back, don't litter, etc
100
Name two resources of the Northeast
grapes, cranberries, minerals, sap
100
List 3 ways the Niagara River is important.
hydropower, hydroelectricity and energy
100
What is a way the Green Mountains and White Mountains are similar?
The both have many ski resorts, a lot of snow, part of Appalachian Mountains
100
How did the Chesapeake Bay get its name?
The Native American word- Chesepiook
200
How do many people that live on the Chesapeake make a living?
Harvesting the sea
200
Where are grapes grown?
In a vineyard
200
What is a peninsula?
a piece of land almost surrounded by water
200
Name one way the Green Mountains and White Mountains are different?
The way they got their names, their location
200
What do we call people who fish on the bay?
waterman
300
How does the soil around the bay get polluted?
The factories dump waste
300
Why does it take so long to make maple syrup?
It takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon and it has to go to the sugar house.
300
What 2 Great Lakes border Niagara Falls?
Erie and Ontario
300
What mountain ranges make up the Appalachian Mountains?
Green, White and Catskill
300
Which layer of the tree does the spile go?
Layer 3
400
How does the polluted soil get into the bay?
Moisture washes the soil into rivers that drain into the bay.
400
How do you prepare a cranberry bog?
swampy area is cleared, covered with sand for drainage, and cranberry plants are pressed into the sand
400
Which 2 Northeast states do not border the Atlantic Ocean?
PA and VT
400
How did the Green Mountains get its name?
The Evergreens
400
Why do grapes grow well in the Finger lakes region?
The warm air
500
Name two other bays other than the Chesapeake
Delaware and Massachussetts
500
What part of the tree is sap collected?
The trunk
500
What is the largest Finger Lake>
Lake Seneca
500
How did the White Mountains get its name?
The snow covered peaks
500
What is produced by the hydropower plants on the Niagara River?
hydroelectricity
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