Growing Season
Using the map provided, which Southeast state has the longest growing season?
What is Florida?
This is the area at the base of the Appalachian Mountain range that has attracted people to build mills and workshops.
What is the fall line?
What city and state would you be visiting if you were going to hear Dixieland jazz and eat Cajun food?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
This is an area of almost flat land along the ocean.
What is the coastal plain?
Of the following, this is not a natural resource: paper, oil, cotton, water.
What is paper?
Using the map provided, which Southeast state has the shortest growing season?
What is West Virginia?
Sad songs that were sung by African American slaves contributed to what style of music?
What is the blues?
This is a Florida attraction where you can see many varieties of animals in their natural habitat.
What is the Everglades?
This is a flat grassland.
What is a savanna?
The giant rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are used to extract this natural resource.
What is oil?
What type of land has the longest growing season?
What is on the Coastal Plain?
These are major storms that form over the Gulf of Mexico.
What are hurricanes?
This is a Florida landmark where you can see space shuttle launches.
What is the John F. Kennedy Space Center?
This is a fan shaped area of land at the mouth of a river that is formed by deposits of mud, sand, and pebbles.
What is a delta?
This is where most of the rivers in the Southeast region begin.
What is in the Appalachian Mountains?
Name a product of agriculture that can be found in the Southeast region.
What are (cotton, peanuts, peaches, oranges, rice, sugarcane, etc. Answers will vary)
This is a low area of land that is covered with water for at least part of the year.
What is a swamp?
This is the city and state where you could visit Graceland, a famous landmark devoted to Elvis Presley.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
This is an area where waterfalls form and many factories are built.
What is a fall line?
Coal from Appalachia is used to produce this necessary energy.
What is electricity?
These are three things farmers need to be successful.
What are good soil, plenty of rain, and a long growing season.
This is a stream that flows through a swamp.
What is a bayou?
This is the name of the first settlement in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
This is an agricultural item that saved Jamestown from dying out.
What is tobacco?
This is the longest river in the United States and is used for transportation, boating, and shipping goods.
What is the Mississippi River?