Land & Water
Land & Water Part 2
Climate
Climate Part 2
Land of Resources
Settlers
Settlers Part 2
Southern Life
100
What large body of water borders the Southeast on its southern coast?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
100
What do you call an area where all the water drains in one direction?
What is a watershed?
100
What do you call the part of the year when temperatures are warm enough for plants to flourish?
What is a growing season?
100
In what month does hurricane season begin, and when does it end?
What is it lasts from June through November?
100
What do we call trees that are grown and cut for wood?
What is timber?
100
Who was the first Spanish explorer to land in Florida in 1513?
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In what year was New Orleans first settled?
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
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What is 1718?
100
What was the name of the first English settlement in Virginia, established in 1607?
What is Jamestown?
100
What do you call an object made by hand?
What is a craft?
200
What two states house the majority of the 1 million American alligators in the Southeast?
What is Florida and Louisiana?
200
What is a barrier island?
What are islands that lie between the mainland and the ocean?
200
What is a key?
What is a low island?
200
What is considered the costliest natural disaster in American history?
What is Hurricane Katrina?
200
What is a mix of ground-up wood chips, water, and chemicals? It can be used to make products like paper, cardboard and diapers among other things.
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What do you call a young chicken (older than chick and best suitable for roasting, grilling, or barbecuing)?
What is pulp?
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What is a broiler?
200
This person would sign an agreement in which he or she promised to work for free for a period of time.
What is an indentured servant?
200
The Confederate States of America were formed with the purpose of preserving slavery. In what year did this occur?
What is 1861?
200
Name at least 4 genres of music that have their roots in the Southeast.
What is rock and roll, blues, gospel, bluegrass, country, ragtime, and jazz?
300
The large area of flat land leading to the ocean in the Southeast, is known as the _______ ________.
What is the Coastal Plain?
300
Swamps, marshes, and bogs are examples of what?
What are wetlands?
300
How many Southeastern states does the Mississippi River pass through?
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Name them.
What is 5?
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What are Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana?
300
How do hurricanes form?
What is warm air rises from the ocean and hits cooler air above?
300
When companies own huge farms that ship around the world, turning farming into an industry - is is called what?
What is agribusiness?
300
Many Native American tribes (including the Cherokee) were forced to leave their lands and head west in the 1830s. An estimated 15,000 people died in what was known as the what?
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
What do you call a person who settles a place, leading the way for others?
What is a pioneer?
300
What sport is this?
What is NASCAR?
400
The name of this area of rolling hills covered with forests means "foot of the mountain."
What is the Piedmont?
400
This type of plant is often considered a symbol of the region.
What is Spanish Moss?
400
At what speed (in miles per hour; MPH) does a tropical storm turn into a hurricane?
What is 74 MPH?
400
___________ is when the ocean's level rises as water is pushed toward shore.
What is storm surge?
400
What do you call energy created by the force of falling water?
What is hydroelectric power?
400
This is a drawing of a large farm, known as a __________, where enslaved Africans were forced to work.
What is a plantation?
400
Abraham Lincoln passed this in 1863, freeing all enslaved people in the Confederate States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This is one of the oldest cities in the Southeast, founded in 1670 by English settlers.
What is Charleston?
500
What is the name of this flower? And to what state is it the state flower?
What is a camellia and what is Alabama?
500
What 12 states make up the Southeast?
What are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida?
500
At what speed (in miles per hour; MPH) is a hurricane considered a Category 5?
What is more than 157 MPH?
500
This is a dirt or concrete wall that keeps water from overflowing riverbanks. What is it called?
What is a levee?
500
List out 5 major resources present in the Southeast.
What is farmland, coal, trees, oil and natural gas, and ocean resources such as fish?
500
4 of the states in the Southeast were part of the original 13 English colonies. What were they?
What is Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
500
What two Southeastern states stayed in the Union during the Civil War?
What is Kentucky and West Virginia?
500
What major Southeast city started as a railroad center in the 1830s?
What is Atlanta?