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Mountains
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Vocabulary
mines
Government
100
The mountains that Boone helped make a narrow road across so settlers could travel through
What are the Appalachians?
100
The people who first settled on the fall line used this to run their machines.
What is waterpower?
100
a lake formed by water that is held back by a dam
What is a resevoir?
100
Most coal mined in the U.S. today is used to make this
What is electricity?
100
Name the three branches of the state government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
200
a low place useful for crossing between mountains
What is a pass?
200
This is how using recycled paper saves natural resources.
What is it takes less water and fewer wood chips?
200
The place where a river drops from higher to lower land
What is a fall line?
200
These are two kinds of coal mines
What are underground(shaft) and strip mines?
200
This is the job of the state governor.
What is to make sure laws are followed?
300
This is the most visited National Park in the United States. It is part of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Great Smokey Mountain National ParK?
300
These are 2 of the leading products from the Piedmont
What are textiles, lukmber, paper, or furniture?
300
electricity made by waterpower
What is hydroelectric power
300
this is what miners must do when they reclaim the land
What is put it back to its original state?
300
This is the job of the state courts
What is punishing law breakers?
400
This is the main money making job of people in Appalachia.
What is coal mining?
400
Many businesses have offices in their state capitals for this reason.
What is they want to be near government leaders and offices that affect their work?
400
name the 3 branches of the state government
What are executive, judicial, and legislative
400
A rock with one or more minerals in it
What is ore?
400
This is the job of the state legislatures.
What is making state laws?
500
These are two traditions of the people of Appalachia.
What are music, crafts, or storytelling?
500
Tell three ways people have changed rivers.
What are bridges, levees, dams/resevoirs, pollute, make them deeper/wider, hydroelectric plants
500
Miners must do this to the land when they are finished strip mining
What is reclaim?
500
This is the difference between strip and underground mines.
What is strip mines are on top of the earth and underground mines are down inside the earth?
500
Which branch of the state government has the most power?
What is none - They are all equal.