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Geo Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person who mines for gold is called a _____. | sourdough |
| High power water slammed against a rock structure for gold? | hydrolic mining |
| How much was Alaska? | $7,200,000 |
| Earliest explorer to see and claim Alaska for the nation from which he was sent exploring? | Vitus Barren |
| US rep who purchases Alaska from a foreign land | William Seward |
| newly planned capital city of Alaska | Willow |
| Alaska's different capitals over the years | Sitka-Seward-Juneau |
| Present day capital of Alaska was named after this man who practiced mining in that region | Joe Juneau |
| windiest place on Earth in NH (231 mph) and highest mountain in New England | Mt. Washington |
| Dinali is the highest mountain on this mountain in Alaska | Mt. McKinley |
| Alaska's southern-est region? | Panhandle of Alaska |
| Climates of Alaska | tundra-subartic-marine west coast |
| climate of NE States | humid continental-warm to cool summer |
| a spongy and marshy soil with moss and lichens growing on it (northern most soil) | permafrost soil |
| a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation | podsol soil |
| all of NE used to be covered in ___. | glaciers |
| the only main form of transportation in Alaska is the ____ ____. | Alcan Highway |
| the Alcan Hwy travels from: | Seward-Anchorage-Fairbanks |
| ___% of Americans live in cities | 85% |
| The White Mtns are in the state of ___. | New Hampshire |
| The Brookshire Mtns are in the state of ___. | Massachussetts |
| The Green Mtns are in the state of ___. | Vermont |
| The Longfellow Mtns are in the state of ___. | Maine |
| The Merrimack River is the center of the ____ industry in NE. | textile |
| The state covered in 90% forrest is the Pine Tree state of ___. | Maine |
| The most important natural resource in NE is ____. | steal |
| Kodiak Island is important because it is a ___ ___ for fish, fur, and lumber. | trading post |
| The ___ ___ is the home of the Alaskan Fur Seal, it is a small cluster of islands found to the west of the mainland of Alaska. | Pribilof Islands |
| The Aluetian Islands have ___ volcanoes known as the ___ ___ of ___. | 50-Pacific Ring of Fire. |
| In the middle of the Bering Strait, there are 2 islands which are Eskimo homes and radar bases called ___. | Big and Little Diomedede Island |
| Washington DC is known as the ___ of ____. | head of navigation |
| population of the US in 2003 | 294,043,000 |
| first name of New Amsterdam | New York City |
| president Lincolns Secretary of State that bought Alaska | William Seward |
| known for large cabbages and vegetables, south of Alaskan range | Matanuska Valley |
| the trans-Alaskan pipeline extends from these 2 cities | Pradhoe Bay-Valdez |
| Haines animal of interest | bald eagle |
| product of marshes of Cape Cod | cranberries |
| product of coast of Maine | blueberries and lobsters |
| this states has maple sugar-sugar beets and sugar cane (__%) | Vermont-25% |
| states with highest per capita income | Connecticut |
| the cold labrador ocean current and plankton is off the coast of this state? | Maine |
| 300 mile shallow spot off Boston for fishing-bank fishing | George's Banks |
| Most sought after fish at the Grand Banks for food and liver oil for children | Fool Fish/Cod |
| dominant shell fish off the coast of Maine | lobster |
| Aroostook County Product | potatoes |
| Washington County Maine Product | blueberries |
| Connecticut River Valley Products | tobacco and dairying |
| Alaksa's main natural resource that brought many to the state? | black gold |
| 4 mountain ranges in Alaska | Coastal Range, Aleutian Range, Alaska Range and Brooks Range |
| 3 Regions in Alaska | Southern Alaska and the Panhandle, Alaska Central Plateau, and North Slope/Artic Slope |
| 3 Climates in Alaska | Marine West Coast, Subartic, Tundra |
| Northern most city in Alaksa | Point Barrow |
| Eskimo cities in Alaska | Bethel, Point Hope, Point Barrow |
| Pine Tree State | Maine |
| Granite State | New Hampshire |
| Green Mtn State | Vermont |
| Old Colony State | Massachussetts |
| Ocean State | Rhode Island |
| Constitution State of Gadget State | Connecticut |
| Alaska is called a ____ because it doesn't touch the US | exclave |
| the name Alaska means: | Big Land |
| Alaska's nickname? | "Americas Last Frontier" |
| Alaska calls its cities what? | burroughs |
| Alaska's population: | 725,000 |
| Alaska's state flower: | Forget-me-not |
| state bird of Alaska: | Willow Ptarmigan |
| Inuits use this bird to make icecream in Alaska: | Dove Key |
| Alaska has these 4 animals: | seals, walrus, polar bears, and muskox |
| __% of Alaska is Native Americans | 15% |
| 2 major eskimo tribes: | Yupik and Inuits |
| how many eskimos live in Alaska? | 48,000 |
| 3 leading tribes of AmerIndians: | Haida, Tlingit, and Athabask |
| the word eskimo means: | "eaters of raw meat" |
| what is muktuck? | raw whale blubber |
| what year was Alaska made a state? | oct 18 1867 |
| On Jan 1, this pays you to live in Alaska: | Primitive Fund |
| rainiest place in Alaska | Kitchikan |
| Kitchikan is the ___ and ___ capital of Alaska | samon and lumbering |
| last virgin forrest | Tongess National Forrest |
| Alaska trees: | Douglas Fur, Hemlock, Sitka Spruce, and Blue Spruce |
| ___ of all people in Alaska live in Anchoridge | 1/2 |
| army base in Alaska shapped like a donut with airforce in the middle for protection | lake hood |
| most technological cities | Tulsa, Omaha, and Akron |
| largest mountain range in Alaska | Alaska Range |
| 2 types of glaciers in Alaska | piedmont and alpine |
| glacier that goes down the mountain and into the ocean | piedmont |
| a chunk of ice in the ocean is called a: | iceberg |
| __% of VA is piedmont | 41% |
| glacier that goes down a mountain and turns into a lake | alpine glacier |
| a lake made from a glaicer is called a: | tarn |
| the end of a glacier is called a: | lip |
| a chunk of glacier that breaks off and falls into the ocean | calving |
| all the soil picked up on the bottom of the glacier is called: | glacial till/drift |
| layers of glaciers: top, middle, bottom | supra glacial debris (top), englacial debris (middle), subglacial debris (bottom) |
| things people come to Alaska for? | gold and minerals |
| gold mining cities in Alaska | Fairbanks, Juneau, and Nome |
| first religion in Alaska | Russian Orthodox |
| city eagles fly to in Alaska | Haines |
| 37 cruise lines go to this city in Alaska | Skagway |
| activity done on Cooks Inlet | clamming |
| planes in Alaska are called? | bush planes |
| Alaska is __ in farming but __ in fishing. | 50th, 1st |
| crops gown in cool-cold weather | hardy crops |
| __ month harvest in Alaska | 2 |
| #1 farm type and #1 crop in Alaska | dairying and potatoes |
| coldest place in Alaska | Prospect Creek |
| 3rd longest river | Yukon |
| Brooks Range in Alaska is lacking: | trees |
| only city in America allowed to kill whales | Point Barrow |
| gem stone of Alaska | Jade |
| ___ of all oil in America comes from Alaska | 1/4 |
| biggest military city in Alaska | Kodiak |
| biggest carnivor in N. America | Kodiak Bear |
| Pribilof Island is famous for this bird: | Puffon Bird |
| ___% of all govt revenue come from Alaska | 85% |
| ___% of Maine is covered in trees | 90% |
| full name of Rhode Island | Rhode Island and the Providence Plantation |
| people who come to NE to look at leaves | leaf peepers |
| people from NE who go South for the winter to warm areas | Snow Birds |
| ____ wrote the first constitution after breaking away from Britain | Connecticut |
| oldest newspaper in America | The Hartford Courant |
| the idea of mass production of items on a line in a factory started in factories developed in ____. | Connecticut |
| 2 big naval and shipbuilding centers in Conn.: | Groton and New London |
| built the first Baptist Church and founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| ___ of the lace supply for America used to be manufactured in Rhode Island | 1/2 |
| no counties in Rhode Island, they call their political subdivisions ___. There are ___. | municipalities, 39 |
| center of Food Fish production | George's Bank |
| fish caught on George's Bank | haddock, halibut, and flounder |
| ___ and ____ are harvested along the Maine and NH coastlines | clams and lobsters |
| ___ is caught off the Grand Banks where it is shallow and loaded with Plankton | Cod |
| ___ in Massachusetts used to be the leading whaling center of the USA before whaling was banned | New Bedford, Mass. |
| the upstate citizens refer to citizens who come from the coastal flat regions of NE to travel to the mountains ___. | flatlanders |
| ___ is the most rural state in the USA with __ out of __ citizens living in the rural countryside | Vermont, 2 out of 3 |
| in Vermont, they domesticated the first native ___ for farmwork because of its large size. It was called the ___. | horse, Morgan |
| ___ ___ is geographically known as the "___ ___" of America because of the White Mountains | New Hampshire, "Little Switzerland" |
| ___ ___ was the first state to grow ___, but the soil mixture was better in Maine so it was abandoned as a crop there and cultivation began across the Aroostook Valley | New Hampshire, potatoes |
| Natural Resources of NE: | Mica, Cobalt, and Manganese |
| __% of all land in Alaska is covered in glaciers | 5% |
| main eskimo in Alaska | Inuit |
| New England States= all land in ____ | Nebraska |
| NE population | 13 1/2 million |
| capital of insurances | Hartward, Connec. |
| first to see Block Island | Giovanna Verrazon |
| Maines quarter | App. Mountains |
| ___ lighthouses on coast of Maine | 62 |
| ___ mile coastline in Maine | 228 miles |
| first industry in Kittary Maine: | shipbuilding |
| in Connect and RI, you eat ___ on Thanksgiving | duck |
| an animal found all over the world is called: | ubicuous |
| city in Maine for outdoor stuff? | Freeport, Maine |
| Rivers in Maine: | St. Johns, Kennebic, Anderscoggin, and Penabascot |
| leading textile industry on the | Merrimack River |
| only ___% of all clothes are made in NE states | 10% |
| animal found in Maine | moose |
| biggest source of living in NE states because soil is so bad | ocean |
| __% of all lobsters are harvested along the coast of Maine | 90% |
| most important city in NE | Boston, Mass |
| ____, ____, and ____ came from Maine | scallops, flounder, and herring |
| 4 leading fish places in NE | Gloster, Mass., Portland, Maine, Portsmouth, NH, and Boston, Mass. |
| ___% of all potatoes are grown in Aroostook County | 25% |
| 2nd best place to farm in NE | Aroostook Valley |
| __% of all blueberries are grown along the coast of Maine | 98% |
| Maine has ___ bridges | 109 |
| this place created tomestones | Barre, Vermont |
| 3 biggest industries in Vermont | granite/marble, wood processing, an IBM |
| __% of all maple sugar and syrup comes from Vermont | 25% |
| river that seperates Vermont from NH | Connect. River |
| the "____ ___" mtn in NH used to be America's leading attraction until it rained 10 days straight and it slid off | "Old Man" mtn |
| you can take a train to the top of Mt. Washington on a 1 track called a: | cog railroad |
| biggest pumpkin place in the US | Keen, NH |
| oldest college in Masss. | Harvard |
| NE lacks: | natural resources |
| NH has the biggest: | legislature |
| biggest tourist attraction in NH= | Cape Cod |
| ___% of all cranberries grown on marshes in Cape Cod | 60% |
| ___ of all clothes are made in NYC in ___ | 1/3, lofts |
| cobbler industry in: | Manchester, NH and Brockton, Mass |
| 3 story barn in NE on the side of a mountain | bank barn |
| 1st floor= ____, 2nd floor= ____, 3rd floor= ____ BANK BARN | livestock, tracktor storage, fodder stock |
| we live in a | megalopolis |
| when city limits start and stop at the time, this is called a | |
| 95 highway | bushwash |
| Boston to Norfolk | busnor |
| bringing in raw materials and turning them into something | entrepot |
| 5 subdivisions in NY called | burroughs |
| Staton Island name changing to | Richmond |
| biggest problem in the Mid Atlantic | lack of housing |
| Delmarva is big on | crabbing and oystering |
| Midatlantic is big on | farming |
| raising vegatables to be sold in the city | truck farming |
| horses that swim ashore after Spanish and Portuguese ships sank | bank ponies |
| worlds most industrialized fish | menhaden fish |
| 4 main places of midatlantic | Urrituck, Abermarble, Pamilico, Reedvile |
| piscaculture is practiced on this island on the Chesapeake Bay | Tangier Island |
| Tangier=center for | soft shell crabs |
| most important city around Chesapeake Bay and Maryland | Baltimore |
| #1 grain exporting city in America | Baltimore |
| Baltimore builds | ships |
| worlds largest steel corp | Sparrows Point |
| these 2 products make steel | limestone and iron ore |
| we are depleted of this | iron ore |
| this country has iron ore in ____ ____ ____ | Venezuela, Cerrio Bellivar Mtn |
| we sell them ____, they sell us iron ore | cole |
| Cuidad Bellivar is the ____ center of SH | steel |
| he created DC | Pierre D'Enfant |
| only city not in a state | DC |
| streets of DC | numbers and states |
| # of parks in DC | 300 |
| good to build a city in these 2 places for transportation | Potomac River and Anacostia River |
| farthest up a river you can sail but you must stop because of rapids | head of navigation |
| waterfall in VA | Great Falls |
| Maryland controls the ____ River so we have to buy water from them | Potomac |
| new mayor of DC | Vincent Gray |
| # of museums in DC | 43 |
| # of colleges in DC | 40 |
| Lincoln's statue is melting because of | pollution |
| # of pillars around Lincoln Memorial | 29 |
| highest hill in DC | Capital Hill |
| # of rooms in the White House | 132 |
| nothing can be taller then the ___ of ____ on top of the capital building | Statue of Freedom |
| the statue of freedom is a replica of this person | Pocahontas |
| this place has plants from all over the world | US Botanic Garden |
| this place has a copy of every book in the world | Library of Congress |
| this person created the Smithsonian | John Smithson |
| a 3rd of this monument was finished when they ran out of money and had to campaign | Washington Monument |
| # of rooms in the capital building | 500 |
| 4 buildings on Capital Hill | US Botanical Garden, Library of Congress, Capital, and Supreme Court |
| # of Smithsonians | 19 |
| 5th biggest Catholic Church in the world | Church of Emaculate Conception |
| people go to see the ___ ___ in the ceiling at the Church of Emacualte Conception | Christ mosaic |
| Russian and Canada have __ embassies in DC | 3 |
| Garden State= | New Jersey |
| big tourist attraction in NJ | Cape May |
| NJ call the beach the ____. | shore |
| empty middle section of NJ | Pine Barrens |
| all of NY's food comes from | NJ |
| tourist go to ___ ___ in NJ | Atlantic City |
| NJ has long skinny cities called ___ ___ ___ (vs circular cities) | show string cities |
| the keystone state | Pennsylvania |
| most of Pennsylvania's houses are made of | polished stone |
| the very last stone at the middle of the bridge | keystone |
| the keystone supports | pressure |
| chemical capital of the US | Wilmington, Delaware |
| Chemical Capital of Ohio River Valley | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1st city to have a baseball team | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1st baseball team | Red Stockings |
| founded Pennsylvania | William Penn |
| Pennsylvania was the first to have | freedom of religion |
| in the Ben Franklin museum, everything is | interactive |
| 3 products of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania | plait glass, clay, and chemicals |
| contractors try not to use this brown coal | liginite coal |
| #1 coal state | West VA |
| crushed together grass and leaves used to make coal | piedmont |
| West VA has | |
| 3 types of coal | brown coal, soft coal, and hard coal |
| Bituminmous makes these 2 things | electricity and steal |
| Bituminmous is what type of coal | soft coal |
| this is the most expensive and oldest coal in ____ Pennsylvania | anthracite, Scraton Penns |
| pure iron ore in Minnesota | taconite |
| all the steal from 911 made this | USS NY ship |
| __% of all books are published in ___ ____ NY | 40%, Midtown Manhatten |
| ___ of all clothes are made on ___ ___ | 1/3, 7th Avenue |
| entertainment capital of the world | Times Square |
| __% of all Washingtonians are African Americans | 70% |
| on the | |
| NY is 2nd to Wisconsin in | dairying |
| NY is 2nd in | vivaculture |
| viviculture is | vineyards |
| over __% of all farming activities of Alaska are found in the ___ Valley just 20 miles north of Anchorage | Matanuska Valley |
| Crops grown in the Matanuksa Valley are called ____ and can grow in cool to cold weather | Hardy Crops |
| leading crop in the Matanuska Valley | potatoes |
| crops that grow underground in Alaska | root crops |
| waterbody which is 56 miles wide separating Russia from Alaska. | Bering Strait |
| economically signficant of Kodiak Island | trading post |
| ethnic name for native American eskimos | inuits |
| Alaksan city known for its military base and for being the "hub" of polar air flights | Anchorage |
| this highway in Alaska extends from America to Fairbanks | Alcan Highway |
| home of the Alaskan Fur Seal | Pribilof Islands |
| Alaska's largest industry | fishing |
| asian country in which much of the Alaskan fish and usable lumber supply is exported | Japan |
| large useless and stunted forest which covers the Alaska Central Plateu | Great Coniferous |
| 2 most used tress for paper, furniture, etc | Douglas Fur and Hemlock |
| home of Alaska's Lumbering and center of fishing | Kitchikan |
| the rail line in Alaska connects these 3 cities | Seward, Fairbanks and Anchorage |
| largest national forest in southeast Alaska that Bush is thinking about opening up to timber lodging | Tongas |
| largest Alaskan eskimo community | Bethel |
| the ___ islands were the early settlement area of Native American fisherman and DEW line radar stations | Aleutian islands |
| _% of Alaska is covered in ice | 5% |
| __% of America's total oil production comes from Alaksa | 28% |
| ___% of Alaksa's total revenue from black gold to run the workings of the Alaska state govt comes from oil and natural gas found in the state | 85% |
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