Vocabulary
The Native word for corn.
What is maize?
This region includes Hinds County.
What is the Hill Region?
This animal is a part of the aquaculture industry in Mississippi.
What is the catfish?
This city was named after a general who later became a U.S. president.
What is Jackson, Mississippi?
A wind storm that looks like a funnel.
What is a tornado?
The time before war
What is antebellum?
This region has the least fertile soil in Mississippi.
What is the Flatwoods?
The magnolia.
What is the state tree and flower?
This disaster was considered one of the worst and costliest in American History.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Another name for a Spanish soldier.
What is a conquistador?
The natural vegetation of a certain region
What is flora?
This region is the second largest in Mississippi and contains a vital natural resource.
What is the Piney Woods?
This animal can be found throughout the state and is checked for wasting disease.
What is the deer?
This region has a deep history with the Chickasaw.
What is Pontotoc Ridge?
This name means "Old Stone Age."
What is Paleo?
A farmer pays another for use of the land
What is farm tenancy?
This region borders the Mississippi River and is considered the most fertile in the state.
What is the Mississippi Delta?
This animal is the largest animal in Mississippi swamps.
What is the alligator?
This industry was created in the Coastal Meadows region after World War II.
What is shipbuilding?
This continent was the origin of the First Americans.
What is Asia?
They study the composition of the Earth's crust.
What is a geologist?
This region contains alluvial soil in the state of Mississippi.
What is the Yazoo Basin region?
Oak, hickory and pine.
What trees are found in most of Mississippi's forest?
This is the highest point in Mississippi.
What is Woodall Mountain?
The climate of Mississippi.
What is humid subtropical?