northeast states
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- why are many cities built on the coastal plain
- land is flat
- what groups of mountains make up the appalachian mountains
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green mts
catskill mts
allegheny mts - what is the longest marked footpath? where?
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appalachian trail
maine to georgia -
who built the appalacian trail?
how long is it? -
volunteers
2,000 miles - what is the oldest mountain range in the world
- appalacian mts
- what used the power of running water to run machines
- small factories and mills
- how did the industrial revolution change how goods where made
- power driven tools replaced hand tools so goods could be made faster and in greater numbers
- what is the northeast a center for
- manufacturing
- appalachian mts
- a chain of mts with round peaks that run through the east coast
- appalachian trail
- a marked hiking path that runs through the appalachian mts
- glaciers
- a huge sheet of ice that moves slowly across land
- fall line
- a line where the hard rock of a mountain and plateau mmeets the softer rock of the coastal plain
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- first large mill located here
- industrial revolution
- a sudden major change in machinary
- coastal plain
- a flat strip of land along the edge of the atlantic ocean
- revolution
- sudden major change
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The northeast has the _____
area of any of our country's regions yet it has two groups of states in it? - smallest
- The New England states include which states?
- Maine, Vermont, New Hamshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
- The Middle Atlantic states include which states?
- PA,MD,NY,NJ,DE
- Two landforms that both regions share are what?
- coastal plain, appalacian mts.
- Four facts about the appalachian mts. They are made up of?
- the catskill mts., allegheny mts., and green mts.
- the appalachian trail runs from ____ to ____?
- georgia to maine
- The appalachian trail was built by ____ and the ____ marked ____ trail in the world
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volunteers
longest
footpath - during the industrial revolution many ____ were built along the rivers of the northeast?
- mills
- what affect did the industrial revolution have on the production of goods?
- the goods could be made faster and in greater numbers
- what is very important to the economy of the NE?
- ocean
- what are 3 types of food harvested from the sea?
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cod
haddock
shellfish (oysters and clams) - what mammal did they hunt from the sea?
- whale
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what did they use in the whale?
Why? -
whale fat or blubber to make whale oil
this oil was burned as fuel and to light peoples homes - what in the water killed many fish or made them unsafe to eat?
- pollution
- what is another problem in the atlantic ocean?
- too much fishing
- what types of fish do they raise in fish farms?
- oysters, trout, shellfish, salmon, and catfish
- New Jersey
- manufacturing chemicals
- Pennsylvania
- dairy farming
- Vermont
- cheddar cheese
- Massachusettes
- cranberries
- Maine
- lobsters and news print paper
- Maryland
- crabs
- Conneticut
- insurance
- bay
- part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the land
- harbors
- a place where boats can dock
- chesapeak bay
- longest bay on the atlantic coast
- aguculture
- the business of raising fish or shellfish in tanks or artificial ponds