Niagara Falls
The Mountains and Coastline of the Northeast
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Chesapeake Bay
100
Between which two Great Lakes is Niagara Falls located?
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
100
The oldest chain of mountains in North America is the ______________.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
Grapes are grown in _____________, places where grapevines are planted.
What are vineyards?
100
__________________ is a sweet liquid made from the sap of sugar maple trees.
What is maple syrup?
100
Many families in the Chesapeake Bay area make a living by ___________________.
What is harvesting the sea?
200
Many thousands of years ago, _______________ covered what is now the Northeast.
What are glaciers?
200
Which mountain range does NOT make up part of the Appalachian Mountains? A) Rocky Mountains B) White Mountains C) Catskill Mountains D) Green Mountains
What is the Rocky Mountains?
200
______________________ is the largest of the Finger Lakes.
What is Lake Seneca?
200
Whch of the following is NOT a key step in maple syrup production? A) Sap is emptied into a large barrel and taken to a sugar house. B) A hole is drilled into a tree, and a spout is placed in the hole. C) Sap is boiled until water evaporates and prue maple syrup remains. D) Sap is ready to flow only when temperatures drop below freezing.
What is sap is ready to flow only when temeratures drop below freezing.
200
The people who fish in Chesapeake Bay are called ______________.
What are watermen?
300
A deep narrow valley, usually with a stream or river is a ___________.
What is a gorge?
300
The Adirondack Mountains in New York is where _________________ is located, the site where the Winter Olympics were held in 1932 and 1980.
What is Lake Placid?
300
Grapes grow well in the Finger Laks region because ________________.
What is warm air surrounding the Finger Lakes creates the right conditions for the grape's long growing season?
300
It takes many hours to make maple syrup because ________________.
What is about 40 gallons of sap are needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup?
300
The soil around Chesapeake Bay gets polluted by _______________________________.
What is some factories dump waste onto the land?
400
Which is NOT a reason why Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast? A) Much of the electricity in the region is produced by the falls. B) The falls make the autumn leaves turn beautiful colors. C) People can use the power of the falls to run machines. D) Many tourists spend money visiting the beautiful falls each year.
What is the falls make the autumn leaves turn beautiful colors?
400
Along the Maine coastline is _______________________________, the first U.S. National Park east of the Mississippi River.
What is Acadia National Park?
400
A ____________________ is an area of soft, wet, spongy ground.
What is a bog?
400
New Hampshire is known as the _________________ State.
What is granite?
400
The polluted soil gets into Chesapeake Bay by ____________________.
What is rain and snow washes the soil into rivers that drain into the bay?
500
_________________ is produced by hydropower plants on the Niagara River.
What is hydroelectricity?
500
Which of these Northeast states does NOT share a border with the Atlantic Ocean? A) Delaware B) New Jersey C) Maine D) Pennsylvania
What is Pennsylvania?
500
In which way is water NOT essential to the growth of cranberries? A) In winter, water freezes over the bogs to protect the plants. B) Water protects plants against insects and disease in the spring. C) Cranberry plants are placed 600 feet deep in one of the Finger Lakes. D) In the fall, air pockets cause canberries to rise when they are flooded.
What is cranberry plants are placed 600 feet deep in one of the Finger Lakes.
500
____________________________ are places where stone is dug, cut, or blasted out for use in building.
What are quarries?
500
One way in which people have tried to help save the bay is ________________________________________________.
What is by creating the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to educate people about the environment?
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