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How the regions were formed
The Atlantic Coastal Plain
The Piedmont
The Highlands
The Ridge and Valley Region
100
How many regions are there in New Jersey?
What is 4 regions
100
What is an important industry in the Atlantic Coastal Plain that prepares, freezes, or cans an necessary item to be sold?
What is food processing
100
Trenton is our state's _________.
What is capital
100
Most of New Jersey's ________ can be found in this region
What are lakes
100
The highest point in New Jersey is called __________.
What is High Point
200
Sheets of ice and snow are called?
What are glaciers
200
Long Branch and Cape May are considered what?
What is the oldest seashore resorts in the country
200
A line of small waterfalls and rapids is called? (This is also the place where the Piedmont meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain.)
What is a Fall Line
200
Most of New Jersey's ____________ are also found in this region
What are minerals
200
The mountains of the Ridge and Valley Region are part of what mountain chain?
What is the Appalachian Mountains
300
The distance above sea level is called?
What is elevation
300
The Atlantic Coastal Plain extends from New Jersey to ________.
What is Georgia
300
Most of New Jersey's big ______ are found in the Piedmont.
What is cities
300
__________ are like walls that keep water behind them.
What is a dam
300
Most farms in the Ridge and Valley Region are _______ farms.
What is dairy
400
A ridge of rocks, sand, and soil left by a glacier is the definition of which word?
What is a moraine
400
What is the careful use and protection of something, especially natural resources?
What is conservation
400
What happened to many of the farms in the Piedmont area?
What is houses, factories and shopping centers replacing the farms
400
Many big companies have their ____________ in the Highlands.
What is headquarters
400
What is the name of the most famous opening through a mountain by a river in the eastern United States?
What is the Delaware Water Gap
500
How were the Hackensack Meadows and the Great Swamp formed?
What is they were formed from glaciers melting
500
How did the Pine Barrens get its name?
What is pine trees growing in a large part of the outer plain
500
Why did cities and towns grow up along the Fall Line?
What is the farthest that ships could sail (goods were traded here, and the rushing water provided power for waterwheels at mills)
500
Name two notable towns in the Highlands.
What is Hackettstown, Phillipsburg, Morristown, Parsippany, Dover, Pompton Lakes, or Hopatcong
500
Why are there so many paths, roads, and highways through the Delaware Water Gap?
What is avoiding to climb the mountain