Northeastern States
Chapter Vocabulary
The Beautiful Northeast
Northeastern Resources
The Plentiful Sea
100

The capital of this state is Hartford. 

What is Connecticut?

100

This is a deep, narrow valley, usually with a stream or river. 

What is a gorge?

100

Niagara falls is located between these two Great Lakes. 

What is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. 

100

This is the largest of the Finger Lakes. 

What is Lake Seneca? 

100

These are what the people who fish Chesapeake Bay are called. 

What are watermen?

200

This is the most northern state in the region.

What is Maine?

200

This is a huge sheet of ice that covers land. 

What is a glacier?

200

These are the mountain ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains. 

What are the White, Green and Catskill Mountains?

200

Warm air surrounding the Finger Lakes creates the right conditions for the grape's long growing season. 

Why do grapes grow well in the Finger Lakes Region?

200

Factories dump waste onto the land causing this to get polluted. 

What is Chesapeake Bay?

300

These three northeastern states start with "New."

What are New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire?

300

This is part of a sea or lake that cuts into a coastline. 

What is a bay?

300

Pennsylvania does not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean. 

What is a state that does not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean?

300

A hole is drilled into a tree, and a spout is placed in the hole.  Sap is emptied into a large barrel and taken to a sugar house.  Sap is boiled until water evaporates and pure maple syrup remains. 

What are the steps to making maple syrup?

300

Rain and snow wash the soil into rivers that drain into the bay causing the Chesapeake Bay to become this. 

What is polluted? 

400

New Hampshire is directly east of this state. 

What is Vermont?

400

This is an area of soft, wet, spongy ground. 

What is a bog?

400

Hydroelectricity is produced by these on the Niagara River. 

What are hydropower plants?

400
About 40 gallons of sap are needed to produce one gallon of this, and that is why is takes so many hours. 
What is Maple Syrup?
400

By creating this foundation to educate people about the environment people have tried to help save Chesapeake Bay. 

What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?

500

These four states are in the Northeast region and are south of New York. 

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. 

500

This is power that is produced by capturing the energy of flowing water. 

What is hydropower?

500

Much of the electricity in the region is produced in Niagara Falls.  People can use the power of the falls to run machines.  And, many tourists spend money visiting the falls each year.

What are reasons Niagara Falls is important to the Northeast?

500

In winter, water freezes over these to protect the cranberry plants.  

What is a bog? 

500

The swampy land must be leveled and cleared.  Then it is covered with sand for good drainage.  New cranberry plants are then pressed into the sand in the bogs. 

What are the steps to preparing a cranberry bog?