New England
Middle Atlantic States
Megalopolis
terms
miscellaneous
100
What type of industry will be a source of economic growth in New England in the future?
What is high technology industry?
100
This is the major natural resource of the Middle Atlantic States.
What is coal?
100
This is the major reason why the cities of Megalopolis developed where they did.
What is location on the coast?
100
bituminous coal is also called
What is soft coal?
100
this is where goods change from being transported by one form of transportation to a different one.
What is a break-of-bulk center?
200
New England has a lot of pieces of land that stick out into the ocean, being surrounded by water on three sides. These are called ____________.
What are peninsulas?
200
These are farms where the crops produced can be taken directly to market.
What are truck farms?
200
This is what is happening with the boundaries of the metropolitan areas of Megalopolis.
What is expansion and change?
200
an administrative unit of a city
What is a borough?
200
This is one of the US' oldest cities, it is where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is Philadelphia?
300
New England is known for growing this fruit.
What are cranberries?
300
This mountain range is a major landform region of the Middle Atlantic States.
What is the Appalachian Mountain range?
300
Name two problems facing Megalopolis today.
What are unemployment and pollution? (also acceptable: lack of public services)
300
speckled, hard, crystalline rock
What is granite?
300
This city is the capital of Massachusetts and a major center for learning.
What is Boston?
400
Name one way that industrialization changed the New England States.
What is increase in population? (also accept pollution)
400
the major reason for unemployment in the Middle Atlantic States
What is the decline of traditional industries (coal, steel, etc.)?
400
This city does not belong to any state.
What is Washington, D.C.?
400
coal used in blast furnaces to purify iron for making steel
What is coke?
400
This is the Greek word for a group of large urban sub-regions within one larger region.
What is Megalopolis?
500
This is why New England is a major leader in biotechnology.
What is the presence of major universities in the region?
500
One major effect of industrialization in the Middle Atlantic States
What is development of transportation system? (also accept urbanization, growth of trade, pollution, growth of high tech industries)
500
This city is the largest in the U.S. and has five boroughs.
What is New York City?
500
a ridge of rocks, gravel, and sand that is deposited along the margins of a glacier or ice sheet
What is a moraine?
500
This city was once called New Amsterdam because it was owned by the Dutch.
What is New York City?
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