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The Mississippi River
Land and Water of the Southeast
Coal
Agriculture
Vocabulary
100
The Mississippi River begins in what state?
What is Minnesota
100
What ocean is on the edge of the southeastern states?
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
100
What do we use coal for?
What is fuel or to burn for heat.
100
Georgia is popular for growing what?
What is peanuts.
100
What do you call the start of a river?
What is source.
200
What state is the mouth of the Mississippi River in?
What is Louisiana.
200
Into what body of water does the Mississippi river flow by Louisiana?
What is the Gulf of Mexico.
200
Where is coal found?
What is deep underground.
200
What do you call crops that people sell?
What is cash crops.
200
What do we call a place where ships load and unload goods?
What is a port.
300
Name one use of the Mississippi River.
What is fishing, transporting goods, or water for crops.
300
What are the wetlands called on the tip of Florida?
What is the Everglades.
300
What has made coal mining much easier and safer?
What is technology or machines.
300
Name one main crop sold for money in the southeast.
What is cotton, tobacco or citrus fruit.
300
What is an area, such as a swamp from which water does not drain away?
What is a wetland.
400
What are the little rivers and streams called that flow from the Mississippi River?
What is tributaries.
400
What do you call the triangle shaped rich soil at the mouth of a river?
What is a delta.
400
What is one reason why coal mining is dangerous?
What is cave-ins or breathing black dust.
400
Florida grows fruit trees because it has what kind of growing season?
What is long.
400
What is another name for farming or growing crops and raising animals?
What is agriculture.
500
What is the area of land called that is drained by the Mississippi River and it's tributaries?
What is a river basin.
500
What is the name of the mountain range that is partly in the southeastern states?
What is the Appalachian Mountains.
500
What made moving coal easier?
What is railroads.
500
What is one kind of citrus fruit that is grown in Florida?
What is oranges, lemons or grapefruit.
500
What is a group of workers who push for better working conditions called?
What is a labor union or union.