Land and Water
True or False
Glaciers created the jagged coastline and the many islands and lakes of the Northeast Region.
What is true.
This mountain is the tallest in the Northeast Region?
What is Mt. Washington
What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
What is the name of the type of winter storm that can bring more than a foot of snow at one time?
What is a nor'easter or northeaster.
Name two popular sports that were invented in the Northeast Region.
What are basketball and volleyball.
(will also accept baseball)
What is the longest hiking trail in the world?
What is the Appalachian Trail?
What do you call the tourists who come to view the fall colors?
What are leaf peepers.
This state, which used to be part of Massachusetts, is the furthest north in the region?
What is Maine.
How many seasons does the Northeast Region have since it is halfway between the North Pole and the equator?
What is four.
Because the Northeast borders the Atlantic Ocean, seafood dishes are quite popular. Name one famous Northeast seafood dish.
What is clam cake, lobster rolls, clam chowder, lobster
The Appalachian Mountains used to be taller but now they are rounded and smooth because of this process?
What is weathering.
The Liberty Bell is found in which Northeast city and state?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This states capital city is Albany?
What is New York.
Do granite, marble, and coal come from above ground or underground?
What is underground.
True or False Northeasterners eat more ice cream than anywhere else in the U.S.?
What is sooo true!
Where was the highest wind speed on Earth recorded?
What is Mt. Washington (in New Hampshire).
The Empire State Building and the Staue of Liberty are found in which state?
New York
Which 5 states border Massachusetts?
What are New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
What are natural resources?
answers will vary...
Materials that are found in the natural world and can be used by people to make products to sell or use.
Name two of the largest U.S. cities that are part of this region.
Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore
The soil in the northern part of this region is not good for farming because...
What is the soil is rocky.
The Appalachian trail runs from Georgia in the Southeast and ends here in this Northeastern state?
What is Maine?
Name all of the states in the Northeast Region.
What are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource found in the Northeast Region... trees, factories, rivers, fish, granite.
What are factories.
This region is called the "melting pot" because of these people who moved here, bringing their many different cultures together.
What are immigrants?