Mississippi Regions
The region Mississippi is located
What is The Southeastern Region
The natural vegetation of a region
What is Flora
The water found in lakes, ponds, rivers, and reservoirs
What is Surface water
The type of climate that Mississippi has
What is Humid Subtropical
The capital of Mississippi
What is Jackson
The Mississippi landform region known for its fertile soil
What is the Delta
The animal life of a particular area
What is Fauna
A smaller river or stream flowing into a larger river
What is a tributary
Name the geographic processes in Mississippi
hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes
The county Hattiesburg is located
What is Forest
The landform region that is associated with pine forests
What is the Pineywoods
The renting of farmland from another farmer and paying rent in cash or shares of produce
What farm tenancy
A man-made lake where water is collected and kept for use
What is a reservoir
the type of state Mississippi is
What is agricultural
Hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast August 29, 2005
What is Hurricane Katrina
Name one landform region besides the Delta and Pineywoods
What is Flatwoods, Tombigbee Hills, Black Prairie, Pontotoc Ridge, North Central, Jackson Prairie, Bluff Hills, or Gulf Coast Meadows
The height of land above sea level
What is Elevation
The area of land that drains into tributaries and eventually larger rivers
What is a drainage basin
The way tornadoes are messured
What is Fujita Scale
Number of major reservoirs in Mississippi
What is 6
Which county is NOT located in the Pine Hills landform region:
Simpson, Forest, Lamar, or Hinds
What is Hinds
The commercial production of freshwater animals such as catfish
What is Aquaculture
The number of major river systems in Mississippi
What is 9
Something in nature that is useful to humans
What is natural resources
Highest ever temperature in Mississippi
What 115*F
The geographic feature that describes the Delta as an especially fertile region
What is fertile soil
The period of time from 1798 to 1860
What antebellum period
The reason Mississippi is more prone to flooding?
What is Mississippi is relatively low
the soil deposited by running water
What Alluvial soil
The year Hurricane George hit Mississippi
What is 1998
The Piney Woods Region is also known as this
What is the Pine Belt
A low-grade of coal
What is lignite
The length of the Mississippi River
What is 2,438 miles
violent weather patterns that form in the Atlantic Ocean
What is hurricanes
The four states the Border Mississippi
What is Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisianna
The number of Mississippi regions
What is 10
The windblown dust that accumulates into bluffs
What is loess soil
The length of Mississippi from east to west
What is 180 miles
Has a low chance of occuring in Mississippi
What is Earthquakes
The lowest point in Mississippi
What is the Gulf Coast