Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Geography of the SE
Chapter 6 & 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | land almost surrounded by water |
| wetland | an area of low land that is partly covered by slow-moving or still water |
| piedmont | is an area of high land at the foot of mountains |
| fall line | is a place where rivers drop from a higher to lower land, causing waterfalls and rapids to form |
| growing season | time when the weather is warm enough for plants to grow |
| hurricane | a huge tropical storm, with heavy rain, and winds of more than 73 miles per hour, they form over warm ocean water and may move over land causing terrible damage |
| fertilizer | materials that are added to soil to make it more fertile |
| Okefenokee | one of the largest swamps in the U.S. located in parts of GA and FL |
| Everglades | this wetland covers more than a million acres and is located in FL |
| Appalachian Mountains | run through the middle of the Southeast |
| Chesapeake Bay | in Maryland, and Virginia and provides fresh fish, oysters, clams, and crabs |
| cash crops | crops raised to be sold |
| Port of Baltimore | located in Maryland, it is one of the largest, busiest ports in the U.S. |
| Port of South Louisiana | One of the busiest ports in the U.S. |
| raw materials | natural resources used to make products |
| international trade | the trade among different countries |
| export | a good shipped from one country to be sold in another |
| abolish | end |
| import | a good brought into a country from another |
| seceed | to leave |
| plantation | a huge farm where cash crops are grown |
| state legislature | legislative branch of government that makes the laws for the state |
| governor | leads the executive branch of state government |
| food processing | the cooking, canning, drying, freezing, or packaging of food products |
| pulp | a soft mixture of wood chips and chemicals used to make paper |
| high tech | high technology industries |
| Sun Belt | a wide area in the Southern US that has mild weather all year |
| New Orleans | often called the birthplace of Jazz |
| tourism | selling of products and services to people who visit a place for fun |
| resorts | places for fun or recreation |
| barrier islands | islands off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf coast, made of sand, soil and shells deposited over time by waves. |
| wildlife refugee | a place set aside to protect wild animals and plants |
| tradition | custom |
| Nashville | the Capital of country music |
| habitat | a region in which a plant or animal lives naturally |
| endangered | animals whose numbers are very limited |
| extinct | animals of one kind that has all died out |
| Bill Monroe | Father of Bluegrass music |
Created by:
jeffersonkb
Popular Religion sets