This area is very flat, with a low elevation and has different kinds of wetlands?
What is the Outer Coastal Plain
100
Describe the weather and climate of the Florida Keys?
What is mild and sunny?
100
What Southeastern resource is burned in power plants in order to run generators?
What is Coal?
100
How did the Cherokee get most of their food prior to the arrival of the European settlers?
What is by hunting
100
This is the location of the first gold rush in the United States?
What is Dahlonega, Georgia
200
How is the Inner Coastal Plain different from the Outer Coastal Plain?
What is the Inner Coastal Plain has a higher elevation
200
What word describes the climates of the coastal plain states?
What is warm
200
These are the major crops in the Southeast?
What are cotton, corn, peanuts, rice, oranges, and soybeans
200
Name two of the major causes of the Civil War which was fought between the North and the South?
What are
1. slavery
2. disagreements over how much authority the national government should have
200
Name at least 3 modes of transportation running through Atlanta, Georgia?
What are planes, trains, and buses.
300
Barrier Islands are formed how?
What is when sediment is deposited by ocean waves, currents, and rivers into shallow areas off the coast.
300
Hurricanes can be described as having what kinds of winds?
What is strong?
300
Name the two Southeastern States that are major producers of rice in the Southeast?
What are Arkansas and Louisiana?
300
Name 3 businesses run by the Cherokee of North Carolina?
What are lumber businesses, shops for tourists, and making artworks and crafts sold in stores?
300
This Southeastern Industry helped people here become rich and powerful.
What is argriculture? (cotton, etc)
400
This land region has the highest elevation in the Southeast.
What is the Appalachian Mountains
400
Hurricanes are accompanied by heavy rain and winds that move in what kind of path?
What is circular?
400
Swamps in the Southeast are home to this animal?
What are alligators?
400
Name three effects of the Civil War on the Southeast?
What are
1. One in four Confederate soldiers died in the war.
2. Many cities were burned down in the war.
3. Slavery became illegal in the United States.
400
During Reconstruction in the Southeast after the Civil War, the government established an organization to help former slaves. Name this organization?
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
500
These are the landforms that can be found in the Southeastern Region
What are beaches, wetlands, and mountains?
500
When does hurricane season begin and end?
What is from the June until the beginning of November?
500
These products are produced by the Southeast logging industry?
What are paper, boards, and furniture?
500
Name 4 leaders of the United States who were born in the Southeast?
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson?
500
These are the reasons many people have moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
What are
1. It is a center of medical research
2. It is close to 2 other major cities, Raleigh and Durham
3. It is home to many businesses.