Beautiful Northeast
A huge sheet of ice that covers land.
What is a glacier?
An area of soft, wet, spongy ground.
What is a bog?
Of the 1,000 cranberry farms in the United States, 500 of them are in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
Its name comes from a Native American word that means "Great Shellfish Bay."
What is Chesapeake Bay?
A tower with bright lights that shine far out over the water to guide ships.
What is a lighthouse?
A deep narrow valley, usually with a stream or a river.
What is a gorge?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or extending far out into the water.
What is a peninsula?
Warm air surrounding the Finger Lakes creates the right conditions for this plant's long growing season.
What are grapes?
How many families in the Chesapeake Bay area make a living.
What is by harvesting the sea?
Electricity produced by capturing the energy of flowing water.
What is hydroelectricity?
The oldest chain of mountains in the Northeast.
What is the Appalachian Mountain Range?
Pennsylvania and Vermont.
What are the two Northeast states that do not share a border with the Atlantic Ocean?
The number of gallons of sap needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup.
What is 40?
A person who fishes Chesapeake Bay.
What is a waterman?
The largest producer of energy in New York State.
What is the Niagara River?
The Green Mountains, the White Mountains, and the Catskill Mountains.
What are the three main smaller ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains in the Northeast?
The largest and deepest of New York's Finger Lakes.
What is Lake Seneca?
A material that was never alive and is found in the earth.
What is a mineral?
How the SOIL around Chesapeake Bay gets polluted.
What is by FACTORIES dumping waste onto the land?
The site of the Winter Olympics in 1932 and 1980.
What is Lake Placid?
The two Great Lakes that border the Northeast region.
What are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
The first U.S. National Park east of the Mississippi River.
What is Acadia National Park in Maine?
A place where stone is dug, cut, or blasted out to be used in building.
What is a quarry?
How polluted soil gets into the WATER of Chesapeake Bay.
What is by rain and snow washing the soil into rivers that drain into the bay?
This was created to educate people about the environment around Chesapeake Bay.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Foundation?