Geography
Climate
People
Economy
Miscellaneous
100
What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides?
peninsula
100
What is it called when living things change in order to better fit their environment?
adapt
100
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
100
Who is someone who buys or uses goods and services?
Consumer
100
What are the rights that every citizen should have by law?
civil rights
200
What is it called when land is away from a coast or border?
interior
200
What kind of growing season does the South have due to their warm climate?
a long growing season
200
Who refused to give up their bus seat to a white passenger?
Rosa Parks
200
Who is someone who manufactures a product or supplies a service?
Producer
200
What is it called when you give something up to have something else?
Opportunity costs
300
What is a triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river called?
delta
300
What is the climate like as you get closer and closer to the equator?
It gets warmer!
300
Who was the President of the US and believed that a country could not be "half slave, half free?"
Abraham Lincoln
300
What is a product called that is sent out of a country to be sold or traded?
export
300
How is a plantation different from an ordinary farm?
It is much larger and grows just one crop.
400
What are the highest landforms in the South?
The Appalachians and the Ozark Plateau
400
What happens to the climate as you travel to higher elevations?
It gets cooler!
400
What is it called when there are not enough resources to provide a product or service that people want - not enough for everyone that wants it?
scarcity
400
What is it called when people refuse to do business with a person or company?
boycott
400
What are three products of the South?
rice, cotton, oranges, tobacco, sugar cane, chickens, hogs and cattle
500
What is the South's largest river?
the Mississippi
500
What are the three factors that control climate?
elevation, closeness to water and closeness to the equator
500
Who invented a tool to make sugar production cheaper, faster and safer?
Norbert Rilleux
500
How can a producer also be a consumer?
A producer must buy the materials that he/she needs in order to make a product or provide a service.
500
What became the South's major export in the early colonies and its most important crop?
tobacco
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