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4th - Mrs. Browns SS
Economy of the Southeast Chap 3 lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the business of growing crops and raising animals | Agriculture |
| What is called when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow | Growing Season |
| What are some of the Cash Crops of the Southeast | peaches, cotton, watermelon, rice, oranges, peanuts, sugar cane, tabacco, tomotoes, onions, soybeans, and sweet potatoes |
| What is a type of crop that is grown to sell | Cash Crops |
| What are people that travel from another state or country to enjoy a different area while on vacation | Tourists |
| What is it called when a region uses natural resources, good, and services to make money | Economy |
| What are 2 things that help the Southeast farmers grow crops | heavy rainfall and rich soil |
| What was one of the 1st Cash Crops for the Southeast | Tobacco |
| What is the use of ditches and pipes to bring water to the fields | Irrigation |
| What are 2 important parts of the Southeast Economy | Selling Crops and providing services to the Tourists |
| What river was named by the Algonkian-speaking Native Americans | Mississippi River |
| The words Misi Sipi mean | Big water or father of water |
| The starting point of the Mississippi River is called | Source |
| Was is the longest river in North America | Mississippi River |
| Which Lake that is the starting point of the Mississippi River is .... and is located where | Lake Itasca in Minnesota |
| What are small rivers that flow into one Large River | Tributaries |
| What is it called when all the Land is drained by a river and its tributaries | River Basin |
| What is the place where a river empties into an ocean or other large body of water | Mouth |
| The Mouth of the Mississippi empties into what | Gulf of Mexico |
| What does a river carry large amounts of | Silt or fine dirt |
| Over time the Silt or fine dirt form what | Sandbars, islands and river bends |
| Silt is also known as | fine dirt |
| this a wall that Engineers build to keep the rivers from flooding the land during heavy rain or melting snow. | Levees |
| What is used to remove Silt from the bottom of the river to keep it safe | Special Boats |
| What is the place where ships load and unload goods | Ports |
| What Port is used in Louisiana where goods are delivered from other countries and where goods leave the US to go to other countries | Port of New Orleans |
| What are the 2 states that have important wetlands in the Southeaset | Georgia and Florida |
| What is the Wetland in Georgia | The Okefenokee Swamp |
| What is the Wetland in Florida | The Florida Everglades |
| What is land formed by the soil the river deposits as it flows into the sea | Delta |
| Why is the soil in the delta good for farming | it is rich and black |
| What is an area such as a swamp or marsh where water is at or close to the surface of the ground | Wetlands |
| What is the measurement to show a real distance on Earth | Map Scale |
| This map shows few details on a large area | Small-scale Map |
| This map shows a lot of details on a smaller area | Large-scale Map |
| What are 2 Natural Resources in the Southeast | Pine Trees and Coal |
| Pine Trees are used to make | paper and other paper products |
| Miners get Coal from where | by digging it out of the ground |
| Coal can be burned to produce what | heat, light and electricity |
| For how many years have people used coal as fuel | 3,000 years |
| By what year did Americans start using coal more rapidly | 1890's |
| In the 1890's how many tons of coal where Americans using each year | 200 million tons |
| After million of years plants to into what | Coal |
| How do plants turn into coal | plants decay, the decayed plants sink to the bottom of the ground and turn into peat, the peat is pushed down by sand and soil , the sand and soil turn into rock and the rock presses the peat, heats it and then turns into coal |
| What is coal | black or brown mineral that are found in the ground |
| What are some of the dangers of mining | the tunnels that the miners are working in can collapse and trap miners, breathing in the dust can cause lung cancer, and gases can build up and cause explosions |
| In what year did the miners in the US form Labor Unions | 1890's |
| This is a group of workers who try to get better working conditions. | Labor Unions |
| What are some things that the Labor Unions have gotten for the mining workers | medical care, cleaner air, safer mines, better pay and laws passed to protect workers |
| What machine has made mining faster and safer | Continuous Mines Machine |
| What is the use of Coal | to burn it |
| What does the US get from burning coal | the US earns money from selling the coal to other countries |
| In the 1800's the miners had to use what to remove the coal | shovels and explosives |
| In what year did a law pass to keep children from working in mines | 1940's |
| Who used coal to make pottery | the Hopi |
| Coal is used as electricty in more than ________ of the US | half |
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