Geography
Scenery
Map Skills 1
Map Skills 2
Miscellaneous
100
The _____ ______ is a footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
100
This is the favorite season of many Northeasterners because of the brightly colored leaves.
What is Autumn or Fall?
100
This is the measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
100
These lines measure the distance east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
100
The Northeast’s first factories were powered by ____.
What is water or rivers?
200
A _____is a place where boats can dock.
What is a harbor?
200
This is a tree that has long, thin leaves and is known as an evergreen.
What is a needleleaf?
200
These lines are also called lines of latitude.
What are parallels?
200
This is another name for lines of longitude.
What is meridians?
200
Thousands of years ago part of the Northeast was covered with a ___, which is huge sheet of ice that slowly moves across the land.
What is a glacier?
300
The largest group of mountains in the Northeast is the ___ ______.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
300
These are trees that drop their leaves in the winter.
What are broadleaf trees?
300
This is the starting point for measuring latitude.
What is the equator?
300
The ____ ______is the starting place for measuring longitude and is marked 0̊.
What is the prime meridian?
300
This is the business of raising fish in tanks or ponds.
What is aquaculture?
400
A ___ is part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land.
What is a bay?
400
The leaves change color because there are fewer hours of ________________ in autumn.
What is sunlight?
400
This is a unit for measuring the distance on the Earth’s surface.
What is a degree.
400
It is the crisscrossing of lines of latitude and longitude on a map or globe.
What is the global grid?
400
Falling water can be used to make _____ _____.
What is hydroelectric power?
500
The ___ ____is where the mountains meet the coastal plains.
What is the fall line?
500
Forests cover much of the Northeast because there is plenty of _______ all year.
What is precipitation or rain?
500
This is the latitude of the North Pole.
What is 90 ̊ N?
500
The prime meridian runs through the western parts of these 2 continents.
What is Europe and Africa?
500
This was a major change in which machines replaced hand tools.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
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