Northeastern States
The capital of this state is Hartford.
What is Connecticut?
This is a deep, narrow valley, usually with a stream or river.
What is a gorge?
Niagara falls is located between these two Great Lakes.
What is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
This is the largest of the Finger Lakes.
What is Lake Seneca?
These are what the people who fish Chesapeake Bay are called.
What are watermen?
This is the most northern state in the region.
What is Maine?
This is a huge sheet of ice that covers land.
What is a glacier?
These are the mountain ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains.
What are the White, Green and Catskill Mountains?
Warm air surrounding the Finger Lakes creates the right conditions for the grape's long growing season.
Why do grapes grow well in the Finger Lakes Region?
Factories dump waste onto the land causing this to get polluted.
What is Chesapeake Bay?
These three northeastern states start with "New."
What are New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire?
This is part of a sea or lake that cuts into a coastline.
What is a bay?
Pennsylvania does not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a state that does not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean?
A hole is drilled into a tree, and a spout is placed in the hole. Sap is emptied into a large barrel and taken to a sugar house. Sap is boiled until water evaporates and pure maple syrup remains.
What are the steps to making maple syrup?
Rain and snow wash the soil into rivers that drain into the bay causing the Chesapeake Bay to become this.
What is polluted?
New Hampshire is directly east of this state.
What is Vermont?
This is an area of soft, wet, spongy ground.
What is a bog?
Hydroelectricity is produced by these on the Niagara River.
What are hydropower plants?
By creating this foundation to educate people about the environment people have tried to help save Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?
These four states are in the Northeast region and are south of New York.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware.
This is power that is produced by capturing the energy of flowing water.
What is hydropower?
Much of the electricity in the region is produced in Niagara Falls. People can use the power of the falls to run machines. And, many tourists spend money visiting the falls each year.
What are reasons Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast?
In winter, water freezes over these to protect the cranberry plants.
What is a bog?
The swampy land must be leveled and cleared. Then it is covered with sand for good drainage. New cranberry plants are then pressed into the sand in the bogs.
What are the steps to preparing a cranberry bog?