Geography of MS
This is the relative location of the State of Mississippi.
What is south of The State of Tennessee, east of The Mississippi River, and west of The State of Alabama?
This is the state bird of Mississippi.
What is the Mocking Bird?
He is reported as being the first European to "discover" The Mississippi River.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
All the plant life in a particular region.
This is the number of counties in the State of Mississippi.
What are 82?
This was the name and date of the greatest natural disaster in United States history.
What was Hurricane Katrina-August 29, 2005?
This is the region that the State of Mississippi is located in.
What is the Mid-south and/or Deep South of The United States?
This is the state tree of Mississippi.
What is the Magnolia Tree?
This is the date that Mississippi became a state.
What is December 10, 1817?
The animal life in a particular region.
What is fauna?
This is the population of the State of Mississippi according to The Census Bureau in 2023.
What is 2.94 million residents?
This was the greatest flood in United States history.
What was the Great Flood of 1928?
The average amount of rainfall per year in Mississippi.
What is 59 inches?
These are the closest Native American burial mounds to Sacred Heart School.
What are the Edgefield Mounds?
The number of days between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in fall.
What is the growing season?
This natural disaster occurred in 2014 in the same location as one in 1936.
What was the Rolling Tornado of Tupelo of 2014?
This natural disaster almost killed Elvis Presley.
What was the Tupelo Tornado of April 5, 1936?
This is an example of human-environmental interaction in the State of Mississippi.
What are the reservoirs/lakes that were build by The Army Corps of Engineers to control river flooding in the early 1930's?
This is the average elevation of The State of Mississippi.
What is 300 feet?
A vast, long period of time.
What is an eon?
This is the highest point in the State of Mississippi.
What is Woodall Mountain, at 806 feet?
This was the largest group of Mississippian Native Americans who lived along the Mississippi River.
Who were The Natchez?
This is the absolute location of the State of Mississippi.
What is 30-35 degrees north latitude and 88-91 west longitude?
The average temperature in the State of Mississippi.
What is 62 degrees Fahrenheit?
This was the first permanent European settlement on the Mississippi River.
What was the City of Natchez?
The young women who, beginning in 1704, as many as 500, were moved into the colony of Mississippi, by the French government, in order to give mates to the over whelming male population.
Who were the casquette girls?
This is the total land area in square miles of The State of Mississippi.
What is 48,434?
This was the capital city of the Natchez Native Americans. It was towards the lower part of the Mississippi River.
What was The Grand Village?
These are the four boarding states of Mississippi.
This is the the order in which Mississippi was granted the status of statehood in the United States.
What is the 20th state?
The names of the French explores of The Mississippi River sent down from Canada in the year 1673.
Who were Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet?
Governor Bienville introduced these special laws to regulate the institution of slavery in 1724. These were designed to help protect some rights of the slaves, such as forbidding families from being split up.
What was The Code Noir of 1724?
This meeting and document formally ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France over the Louisianan Territory, including Mississippi.
What was The Treaty of Paris in 1763?
This was the forceful removal of the native Americans in Mississippi, including the Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee, starting in 1831 to Oklahoma, by The U.S. Government.
What was The Trail of Tears?