General Geography
Louisiana Geography
Economics
Government
Louisiana's Early People
100
These imaginary lines encircle the earth horizontally.
What are longitude lines?
100
This is America's longest river, to which part of 31 states drain. This river eventually empties out into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
Something necessary for survival (ex: food, video games, water)
What is a need?
100
The branch of government that writes laws and has two chambers.
What is the legislative branch?
100
These people believed that all of nature itself was sacred.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
The term for the location of a place compared to another place.
What is relative location?
200
This flood control operation in the St. Charles parish redirects water from the Mississippi River and dumps it into Lake Pontchartrain.
What is the Bonnet Carre Spillway?
200
The percentage of eligible workers without jobs.
What is the unemployment rate?
200
The written codes upon which Louisiana is the only state with a government to be based.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
200
These people eventually caused the near extinction of the Native Americans.
Who are the Europeans?
300
This is the name for the time zone of Louisiana, Iowa, and a few other states.
What is the central time zone?
300
The term used to describe soil deposited by a river.
What is alluvial soil?
300
An economy in which the government answers the four basic economic questions.
What is a command economy?
300
The state's chief election officer.
Who is the secretary of state?
300
The largest earthworks from the Native Americans ever discovered.
What is Poverty Point?
400
Philadelphia is 10 degrees north of this Louisiana city.
Where is New Orleans?
400
This species is nonnative to Louisiana and came from South America.
What are nutrias?
400
The kind of tax that is paid on alcohol, cigarettes, gasoline, etc.
What is excise tax?
400
Someone who tries to influence a legislator about a proposed law.
What is a lobbyist?
400
The "Native" Americans crossed this natural pathway to get to America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
500
The time in Alexandria, LA, when it's 6:00 pm in Salem, OR.
What would be at 8:00 pm?
500
These small islands protect Louisiana from waves and storm surges.
What are barrier islands?
500
The four basic economic questions.
What to produce? How to produce? How much to produce? For whom to produce?
500
There's one city in each parish in which the parish government and courthouse is located.
What is a parish seat?
500
The Neo Native Americans' staple crop.
What is corn?
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