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Physical Formation
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States
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Potpourri
100
This struck Earth starting the formation of the Chesapeake Bay.
What is a bolide/comet?
100
Scientists discovered these around the Chesapeake Bay to show that American Indians lived there.
What are tools and fossilized bones and teeth?
100
The number of states and cities that have rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay?
What is 6 states and 1 city?
100
This is source of the Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Susquehanna River?
100
It is a term used to describe land that is MOSTLY surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
It was created by the "thing" that hit Earth and was larger than Rhode Island and as deep as the Grand Canyon.
What is the Exmore Crater?
200
Scientists know American Indians lived in the Chesapeake Bay as long as this many years ago because of what they've discovered.
What is 13,000 years ago?
200
The name of the city that has a river which flows into the Chesapeake Bay.
What is Washington D.C.?
200
The river where Washington D.C. is located by.
What is the Potomac River?
200
A peninsula that is an acronym for Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
What is Delmarva?
300
The age of the current size of the Chesapeake Bay.
What is 3,000 years old?
300
They came from this European country to settle in the Chesapeake Bay area.
What is England?
300
The southern most state that has water that flows into the Chesapeake Bay.
What is Virginia?
300
The name of the river where the first permanent European settlement was.
What is the James River?
300
The water of the Chesapeake Bay provided these essentials for the American Indians living there.
What are 1) safe drinking water, 2) seafood to eat, 3) faster transportation, 4) trees for shelter, 5) plants and other animals for food.
400
What is the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
The year the first permanent European settlement in the Chesapeake Bay.
What is 1607?
400
The northern most state that has rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay?
What is New York?
400
The name of the river located close to where the American Revolutionary War ended.
What is the York River?
400
These are the first Europeans to explore the Chesapeake Bay area in this century.
What are the Spanish and the 1500's?
500
Approximately when the bolide/comet struck Earth to create the Chesapeake Bay.
What is 35 million years ago?
500
The name of the first permanent European settlement in the Chesapeake Bay area.
What is Jamestown?
500
The name of 4 other states that are part of the Chesapeake Bay.
What is Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia?
500
The Rappahannock River or the Tappahannock River is a major tributary to the Chesapeake Bay?
What is the Rappahannock River?
500
The meaning of the American Indian word "chesapeake".
What is "Great Water"?