Vocabulary
A community located just outside a city
What is a suburb?
What caused the Appalachian Mountains to become rounder and lower.
What is Erosion?
One reason why the Northeast has four seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
A system of canals from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
The capital of Boston and the abbreviation for that state
What is Massachusetts, MA?
A sheltered place along the coast where ships can dock
What is a harbor?
The mountain chain that begins in Georgia and ends in Maine.
What is The Appalachian Mountains
Places where stone is cut or blasted out.
What is a quarry?
A waterway dug across the land.
What is a canal?
The Northeast gets plenty of _____________ all year round. This is good for the growth of trees.
precipitation
An urban area and its suburbs
What is a metropolitan area?
A part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land.
What is a bay?
A very hard rock that is used to build buildings.
What is granite?
A city area.
What is urban?
The two sub regions in the Northeast
What are New England and the Middle Atlantic?
A part of a canal that is closed off by gates and helps ships move from one level to another.
What is a lock?
The body of water that the Northeast is near, which results in why the region gets plenty of precipitation all year.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Which sub-region of the Northeast has the best soil for growing crops?
Mid-Atlantic states
To travel back and forth to your job, school, etc.
What is commute?
How many miles (approximately) the Appalachian Trail covers.
Another word for colorful leaves
What is foliage?
Which Northeast state has the longest coastline?
Maine
Why some leaves change color in the fall.
What happens when the temperature drops and the leaves stop making green pigment?
Name two ways that the people have changed the land in the Northeast?
They have built seaways, canals, highways, bridges, tunnels, and cities.
This line is where the hard rock of the mountains and the low plateau meet the softer rock.
What is a fall line?