Natural Resources
Landforms
Economy
Trivia
Trivia
100

A material found in nature that people use.

What is a natural resource?

100

Name 3 landforms in the Northeast

What are valleys, hills, and mountains

100

Besides lobster bringing in money-shipyards, where ships are built are found in this state

What is Maine

100

Name the two Great Lakes that border New York

What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

100

Fish farming is called...

What is aquaculture

200

What 3 natural resources are mined from the ground?

What is granite, marble, and coal

200

Name the mountain ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains  

What are the Allegheny, Poconos, Adirondack, and Catskills

200

It is the largest city in the USA.  People come from all over to watch Broadway Plays.  Also, Wall Street is the financial and banking industry.

What is New York City

200

Name three types of pollution

What are air, noise, and light pollution

200

Desribe the 4 distinct season in the Northeast Region

Winters:  Harsh, cold, snowy, blizzards

Fall:  leaves change color, days getting shorter, cooler weather

Summer:  hot, humid

Spring:  new life begins, plants, animals out of hibernation

300

Which state has the largest granite quarries in the United States?

What is Vermont?

300

The Longest hiking trail in the world is

What is the Appalachian Train

300

People who visit the regions for our beaches, mountains, leaf peeping, islands, colleges are called

What is a tourist or tourism

300

Who had been living on the land in the Northeast for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived?

What are the Native People

300

Name the three communities in the Northeast

What are urban, rural and suburban

400

Trees are cut down to make ....

What are houses, paper, furniture and fuel?

400

What are the Appalachian Mountains smaller than they used to be?

What is erosion

400

People work in factories to making items such as...

What are electronics, steel, chemicals, clothing and candy

400

Why did the Pilgrims leave England?

What is searching for religious freedom, and to be far away from a ruling King.

400

Name the natural resource that is renewable

What is water

500

This is an important resource in the Northeast for fishing, lobstering, and catching shellfish

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

500

What is the highest peak in the Northeast?

What is Mount Washington

500

The lower portion of this region is fertile for growing.   Farmers in those states grow the following..

What are grain, oats, corn, cabbage and many other fruitsa and vegetables

500

Why is New York City known as a "Melting Pot?"

What is because people from many different cultures live here

500

This landmark is known for both their beauty and for being a source of hydropower.  It is used to create electricity for people to use in their homes and businesses.

What are Niagara Falls