Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's Land and Water
Pennsylvania's People and Places
Pennsylvania Connection
Review and Test Preparation
100
A place where roads meet.
What is a crossroad?
100
A raised land in a region.
What is a terrace?
100
The place were many people live.
What is a population center?
100
Land set aside for recreation, history, and conservation.
What is a National Forest?
100
The Susquehanna River.
What is the wide and shallow river that flows across much of the state?
200
An area that includes a largest city or cities and the surrounding communities.
What is a metropolitan area?
200
Allegheny Mountains, woodlands, Lehigh and Schuykill rivers, Raystown lake.
What are the physical regions of Pennsylvania?
200
A self-governing town that is bigger than a village.
What is a borough?
200
To ensure the forest's future.
What is protective guidelines?
200
Harrisburg
What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
300
The area that Pennsylvania covers.
What is 45,000 square miles?
300
Carved valleys, flattened the land, and rounded mountains.
What is how glaciers shaped the land in Pennsylvania?
300
Parades and festivals.
What are ways of celebrating diversity in Pennsylvania?
300
1923
What is the year the land for the Allegheny National Forest was set aside?
300
Germany
What is the country that the Pennsylvania Dutch came from?
400
North America, in the Western hemisphere, in the Northeast region.
What is Pennsylvania's global address?
400
Differences in landforms and elevation.
What is why Pennsylvania's climate varies?
400
People from many different countries moved to into the state.
What is the reason Pennsylvania has many different cultures?
400
Hike, camp, swim, bike, and boat.
What are the things people can do in Allegheny National Forest?
400
Philadelphia
What is the state's largest city?
500
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Lake Erie, and NewYork.
What are the borders that make up Pennsylvania?
500
Erie Plain, Allegheny Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain.
What are the five physical regions?
500
Cooking, folk art, painting, quilt-making, woodwork, and farming.
What are the traditions that are still practiced in Pennsylvania?
500
Many trees were cut down for timber which led to flooding of streams and rivers.
What is deforestation?
500
The largest city; in southeastern part of the state. Second-largest city; in the southwestern part of the state. Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the nation; both in Pennsylvania.
What is comparing and contrasting Philadelphia and Pittsburgh?
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