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Understanding NJ's Land
Our Region
The Plains
The Seashore
100

An area that has something special about it that makes it different from other areas

What is a region?

100
The distance above sea level

What is elevation?

100

A broad strip of low, flat land

What is a plain?

100

Plain that has better soil for farming

What is the inner coastal plain?

100

A place people visit for fun

What is a resort?

200

The region we live in

What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain?

200

Relief maps use these on a map to separate colors used to show the elevation of the land

What are contour lines?

200

The number of parts of New Jersey's coastal plain

What is two?

200
The outer coastal plain grows this fruit

What are blueberries?

What are cranberries?

200

Unsettled or undeveloped land

What is open space?

300

The region above the Atlantic Coastal Plain

What is the Piedmont region?

300

Thick sheets of ice and snow

What are glaciers?

300

The coastal plain that lies toward the outside, along the Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay

What is the outer coastal plain?

300

Another name for the Pinelands

What are the Pine Barrens?

300

Ways people who live near the ocean make a living

What is selling or renting things to visitors?

What is fish?

400

The region above the Piedmont region

What is the Highlands region?

400
Raised strips of land or ridges

What are moraines?

400

The part toward the inside, toward the other land

What is the inner coastal plain?

400
The careful use and protection of something

What is conservation?

400

This is a resort in New Jersey

What is Atlantic City, Wildwood, Ocean City, Cape May, Avalon, or Stone Harbor? (reasonable answers)

500

The region with the highest elevation

What is the Ridge and Valley region?

500

These changed the shape New Jersey's land

What are glaciers?

500

Unsettled or undeveloped land

What is open space?

500

Preparing, freezing, or canning food to be sold

What is food processing?

500

Name an activity people do at resorts in New Jersey

What is swim at beach, go to beach, go on the boardwalk, etc?

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