Hydropower plants on the Niagara River produce this.
What is hydroelectricity?
100
This is the largest of the Finger Lakes.
What is Lake Seneca?
100
The people who fish the Chesapeake Bay are called this.
What are watermen?
100
An area of soft, wet ground.
What is a bog?
100
The capital of New Jersey.
What is Trenton?
200
These are three mountain ranges that make up part of the Appalachian Mountain Range.
What are White, Green, and Catskill Mountains?
200
This is the reason why grapes grow so well in the Finger Lakes.
What is because the warm air surrounding the Finger Lakes creates the right condition for the grape's long growing season?
200
The way many families in the Chesapeake Bay area make a living.
What is harvesting the sea?
200
A narrow opening in a coastline.
What is an inlet?
200
The northern most state in this region
What is Maine?
300
The state that does not border the Atlantic Ocean is Delaware, New Jersey, Maine, or Pennsylvania?
What is Pennsylvania?
300
One reason that water is essential (necessary) to the growth of cranberries.
What is
- it freezes the bog to protect the plants in the winter
- it protects the plants from insects & disease in the spring
- air pockets cause the cranberries to rise when they are flooded in the fall
300
The way in which people have tried to help save the Chesapeake Bay.
What is by creating the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to educate people about the environment?
300
A piece of land that is almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
300
Name of 3 states that lie along the Atlantic Ocean.
What are Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, NY, NJ, Delaware, and/or Maryland?
400
Name two reasons why Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast.
What are
- that the falls produce much of the electricity in the region,
- people can use the power of the falls to run machines,
- many tourists spend money visiting the falls each year?
400
The steps in making maple syrup are
First, a hole is drilled in the tree
Next, a spout is attached
Then, sap is collected in a bucket and taken to the sugar house
What is the next step?
The sap is boiled into maple syrup.
400
Who is responsible for producing harmful waste near the Chesapeake Bay, which eventually ends up polluting the bay?
Factories
400
A place where grapevines are planted.
What is a vineyard?
400
The name of two other states and their capitals (other then New Jersey)
What are
Augusta, Maine Hartford, CT
Concord, NH Albany, NY
Montpelier, VT Harrisburg, PA
Boston, MA Annapolis, MD
Providence, RI Dover, DE
500
The two Great Lakes between which Niagara Falls is located.
What are Lakes Erie and Ontario?
500
The number of gallons of sap that is needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup.
What are 40 gallons?
***That is why it takes so long to make it************
500
This is how the polluted soil gets into the Chesapeake Bay.
What is that the rain and snow wash the soil into rivers that drain into the bay?
500
The definition of hydropower.
What is power made by capturing the energy of flowing water?