Vocabulary
The foot of the mountains
What is a piedmont?
The forestry industry plants millions of acres of mostly this kind of tree in the Southeast.
What are pine trees?
One of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Body of water that forms the eastern edge of the Southeast region.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Powerful storm that forms over the warm waters of the Southeast.
What is a hurricane?
When the ocean levels rise as water is pushed toward the shore.
What is storm surge?
Almost half of all the rice grown in the US comes from this state.
What is Arkansas?
Who was George Washington.
Body of water that forms the southern edge of the Southeast region
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Hurrican season.
What is June to November?
A dirt or concrete wall that keeps water from overflowing the riverbanks.
What is a levee?
Florida produces 8 millions tons of this a year.
What is citrus fruit?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Swamps, marshes, and bogs are all types of these...
What are wetlands?
A unique kind of music that began in the Southeast.
What is jazz?
Energy captured from falling water is turned into this.
What is hydroelectric power?
This resource is mined in Appalachia.
What is coal?
This group of American Indians helped the Europeans who set up a colony called Jamestown in what is now Virginia.
Who are the Powhatan?
This range of mountains occupies much of the Southeast.
What are the Appalachain mountains?
African Americans in the Southeast who have kept most of their African heritage.
Who are the Gullah?
A group of people in the Southeast who have kept most of their African heritage.
Who are the Gullah?
Three crops mostly grown in Georgia.
What are peaches, peanuts and pecans?
This group of American Indians were ordered to give up their land.
Who are the Cherokee?
This large river is west of the Appalachain mountains and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
This music from African American churches inspired people.
What is gospel music?