Lesson 1
What great wonder of the world is located on the border of the United States and Canada?
Niagara Falls
What resource comes from maple trees?
Sap
What is the main bay discussed in lesson 3?
Chesapeake Bay
What is a huge sheet of ice that covers land called?
A Glacier
What are the three main mountain ranges that makeup the Appalachian Mountains
Green Mountains, White Mountains, Catskill Mountains
Niagara Falls provides what kind of energy to millions of people in New York state?
Hydropower/ Hydroelectricity
What resource is created using a bog?
Cranberries
What is the name of the organization discussed in lesson 3 related to the Chesapeake Bay?
What is a deep and narrow valley, usually accompanied by a stream or river called?
A Gorge
Niagara falls is located between what two Great Lakes?
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
What type of structure is used to guide ships who are to close to the rocky coast at night?
Light Houses
A Quarry
Define overfishing
When you fish for an animal faster than it re-produces.
An area of soft, wet, spongy ground.
A Bog
What two landforms involve being surrounded by land or water on three sides? Define each.
Peninsula is surrounded by water.
Bay is surrounded by land.
What famous footpath is about 2,160 miles long and passes through fourteen states from northeast to the southeast including the New England and Tri-State areas?
The Appalachian Trail
What is the largest of all of the finger lakes?
Lake Seneca
What is the type of food that is primarily caught in Chesapeake Bay?
Shellfish
What is a narrow opening in the coastline called?
An inlet
Between 1800 and 1840 this place was known as the "Whaling Capital of the World."
What is the name of the place?
What state is it in?
Nantucket; Massachusetts
Where are these mountain ranges located?
Green Mountains
White Mountains
Catskill Mountains
Green Mountains= Vermont
White Mountains= New Hampshire
Catskill Mountains= New York
Maple syrup, Cranberries, and Quarries are all mentioned throughout lesson two. What is the only resource missing from this list? What is a farm that grows the resource called? Where are the largest of these farms in the Northeast?
Grapes; Vineyard; New York
Name the bays discussed in lesson 3.
Chesapeake
Delaware
Massachusetts
People who fish a bay are called?
Watermen
What is the slogan of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?
What is the mission of this foundation?
Slogan= "Save the Bay"
Mission= To educate people about the environment.