Geography
Name two bodies of water in the Southeast.
What is the Tennessee River, Ohio River, Mississippi River, Atlantic Ocean, or Gulf of Mexico?
The "Birthplace of the Blues".
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
A large farm where cotton was often grown.
What is a plantation?
A powerful wind storm shaped like a funnel.
What is a tornado?
Swamp, savana, and forests as well as 300 different kinds of birds and other animals are found at this park.
What is the Everglades National Park in Florida?
A hilly region at the base of a mountain range.
What is a foothill?
The city known as the "Birthplace of Jazz".
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
The separation of people based on race, culture, religion, or gender.
What is segregation?
This happens when there is too much rain and the rivers fill with more water than it can hold.
What is a flood?
The business of growing crops (cotton, peaches, tobacco, oranges, rice, peanuts) and raising animals (cattle).
What is agriculture?
The foothill of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Piedmont?
The type of music that was sung in the Appalachian Mountains.
Bluegrass
This group of European colonists settled in Louisiana.
Who are the French colonists?
The affect Hurricane Andrew had on the lives of people in southern Florida.
What is destroying homes and businesses?
This natural resource is found under the Gulf of Mexico.
What is petroleum?
An imaginary line, marked by waterfalls and rapids, where rivers drop from higher to lower land. It also determines how navigable rivers are.
What is the falline?
The three instruments used in bluegrass music.
What are guitars, fiddles, and banjoes?
A protest that began in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The heavy rain and strong wind storm that occurred in 1992.
What was Hurricane Andrew?
This is used to produce electricity and heat homes.
What is coal?
Major waterway(s) in the Southeast Region and how it affects the economy.
What are the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Ohio River, Tennessee River, or Ohio River?
Help to ship goods and people.
Blues was sung by this group of people about their sorrows.
Who are slaves?
This place was settled by colonists from England.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
The difference between the weather in the highlands and lowlands.
What is a cooler climate?
This stretches from Florida to California and has a warmer, more mild climate.
What is the Sunbelt?