State/Capitals
What is the Capital of Alabama
Montgomery
What is the Capital of South Carolina?
Columbia
What is the climate like?
Warm and sunny because it is closer to the equator.
Summer's are long and hot and Winter's are short and mild.
Landforms in the upper part of the Southeast region.
What is the highest landform?
rolling hills, river valleys, plateaus
Appalachian Mountains
The Southeast produces many crops because of its flat land, rich soil, and long growing season. What type of things do farmers produce?
rice, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, peanuts
Fun fact: Southeast is center for food processing
What is the capital of Louisiana?
Richmond
What is the capital of West Virginia?
True or False: It is cooler in the hills and mountains and storms and tornados in the highlands.
True!!
Landforms in the lower part of the southeast region.
What is the name of the water on the coast?
beaches, swamps, wetlands
Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
The Southeast is the center of our country's textile industry. What do farmers grow so much of which makes yarn, cloth, and carpets
Cotton
What is the capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
What is the capital of Florida?
Tallahasse
What type of music came from the Southeast Region?
Hint: 3 types - 1 from Appalachian mountains, 1 from Louisiana, 1 from Mississippi Delta
The Appalachian Mountains - Bluegrass (played on banjos, fiddles, and guitars)
Louisiana - Jazz (best-known artist- Louis Armstrong)
Mississippi Delta - Blues (sad songs)
A wetland that covers much of southern Florida.
Largest swamp in North America
Hint: it is located in Georgia
Everglades
Okefenokee
True or False - The Gulf Coast produces cotton
FALSE - The Gulf Coast produces oil and natural gas - A VERY important resource.
What is the capital of Arkansas?
Little Rock
What is the capital of Virginia?
Richmond
Manmade tourist spots
Disney World, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Kennedy Space Center, The Castillo de San Marcos fort, Coca-Cola Museum, The Georgia Aquarium, Universal Studios, Graceland -- gravesite of Elvis Presely
This river carries fertile soil to the huge delta at the Gulf of Mexico. Hint: A delta is a triangle-shaped area at the end of a river. Delta soil is good for farming!
Mississippi River
What do people mine in the Appalachian Mountains to create energy?
Coal
What is the capital of Kentucky?
Frankfort
What is the capital of Tennesse?
What is the capital of North Carolina?
Nashville
Raleigh
Industries important to the SouthEast Region
coal-mining, steel-making, lumber, oil
The place where the Appalachian Mountains meet the Coastal Plain. Hint: the land FALLS sharply at this point
Fall line
As rivers flow over the drop, they form waterfalls. The falling water is used to run machines and create electricity
What other things do people mine in this region?
Where can you only mine diamonds?
Limestone, iron
Center of Diamonds