Vocab Words
Landforms
Wall Street
Settlers
Today's World
100
A climate that is neither very hot nor very cold.
What is temperate
100
The tallest mountain in the Northeast region.
What is Mt. Washington?
100
Name the city where Wall Street is located.
What is New York City?
100
Name one reason settlers came to America.
What is better land to farm, better jobs, religious freedom...?
100
Name one product that comes from the Northeast region.
What are maple syrup, cranberries, medicines, machinery...?
200
A practice handed down from parents to children.
What is a tradition?
200
The ocean that is on the eastern side of the Northeast region.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
A share in the ownership of a business is called...
What is stock?
200
This group helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in the Northeast region.
What is the Wampanoag (or Native Americans)?
200
Name one college in the Northeast region.
What are Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Rutgers, Penn...
300
A Puritan who left England for religious freedom and settled in Plymouth Colony.
What is a Pilgrim?
300
Water is important to the Northeast. Name 3 different types of water resources in the Northeast region.
What are lakes, rivers and canals.
300
The sale of goods and services directly to customers.
What is retail?
300
Name two early groups of settlers of the Northeast region.
What are Quakers, Pilgrims, Dutch or Germans?
300
A group of people who share the same language, customs and way of life.
What is an ethnic group?
400
A place where ships can stop to load or unload.
What is a port?
400
Name one type of vegetation in the Northeast region.
What are maples, oaks, ash, or pine trees? Or, what is a forest?
400
The sale of large amounts of goods, usually to stores.
What is wholesale?
400
Name the reason most Africans arrived in the Northeast region in the 1600s and 1700s.
What is slavery?
400
An idea or belief that a person thinks is important.
What is a value?
500
All the living and nonliving things that make up an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Name a mountian range found in the Northeast region.
What are the Adirondacks, or the Appalachian mountains?
500
The busy floor where stocks are bought and sold.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
500
Name the leader of the Pennsylvania Colony, which gave religious freedom to all settlers.
Who is William Penn?
500
Name one way ethnic groups help immigrants.
What is selling familiar foods, practicing familiar religions, finding jobs, teaching English, keeping traditions alive...?
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