Niagra Falls is located between which two Great Lakes?
What is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
100
What did the book's cross-section diagram show us?
What is a hyroelectric power plant.
100
Why do grapes grow well in the Finger Lake region?
What is the warm air that surrounds it.
100
What is the main vocation or job in the Chesapeake Bay area?
What is harvesting the sea.
100
What is a quarry?
What is places where stone is dug, cut or blasted out.
200
Which lake is the largest of the Finger Lakes?
What is Lake Seneca.
200
This shows you what you would see if you could cut through something and look inside it.
What is a cross-section diagram.
200
What is a bog?
What is soft, wet, spongy ground.
200
What are people that fish the Chesapeake Bay called?
What is watermen.
200
What is a bay?
What is a part of sea or lake that cuts into the coastline.
300
Why is Niagra Falls important to the Northeast?
Produces electricity.
People use power to run machines.
Tourism
300
How does a power plant use renewable resources?
It uses water which is a renewable resource.
300
Why does it take so long to make maple syrup/
Because it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.
300
How does the Chesapeake Bay get polluted soil in it?
What is factories dumping waste onto the land.
300
How are the Green and White Mountains alike?
What is both are part of the Appalachian Mountains. Both have heavy snowfall and ski resorts.
400
What are the three mountain ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains?
What is the Green, White, and Catskill Mountains.
400
What is a reservoir?
What is a place that holds water.
400
What are the three main steps in maple syrup production?
1. hole drilled in tree
2. collected sap taken to sugar house
3. sap is boiled
400
How have people tried to save the bay?
Created the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
400
How are the green and white mountains different?
Green mountains have evergreen forest. White mountains are snow-covered.
500
Which three Northeast states share a border with the Atlantic Ocean?
What is Main, New Jersey, and Delaware.
500
What were the 4 things listed in the cross-section diagram?
What is the reservoir, turbine, generator and power lines.
500
Give three reasons why water is essential to the growth of cranberries.
1. in winter, water freezes and protects bogs.
2. protects against insects and disease.
3. in fall, air pockets cause them to rise when flooded.
500
List three reasons why the Niagra River is important to the people in the Northwest Region.
1. Hydropower plants on the Niagra River capture energy to run machines.
2. It is the largest producer of electricity in N.Y. state.
3. It generates enough power to light 24 million 100-watt light bulbs at once.
500
What is the squence of events for preparing a cranberry bog?
1. swampy land leveled and cleared.
2. cover with sand for good drainage.
3. new plants are pressed into the sand.