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How many physical regions of North America are there?
10
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Which physical region is only 10 feet above sea level?
Guld Atlantic Coastal Plain
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What area would have to melt for the entire Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain to be underwater?
Antarctica
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What physical region goes up the Mississippi and also points up to New York?
The Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain
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What agricultural products do the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain produce?
- Citrus
- Rice
- Cotton
- Sugar
- Nuts
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Where in the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Region do they have cattle and horses?
Florida
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What important industries do the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plains have?
- agriculture
- cattle and horses
- shipping
- military
- space
- oil
- vacationing
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where are there huge coastal ports?
New Orleans and Flordia
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Where are a lot of commercial goods sent to from Florida?
Europe
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What industry does Brunswick, Georgia have?
huge container ships
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In what state are there 5 military bases alone?
Florida
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What two cities are huge for the space industry?
- Houston, Texas
- Cape Kennedy, Florida
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What 2 components of the oil industry are there?
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What 2 cities have large oil refineries?
- Galveston, Texas
- Houston, Texas
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What is a big city for military in the Gulf Atlantic Coastal Plain?
Jacksonville, Florida
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What 2 cities in Florida are big port cities?
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what are names for senior citizens who move to warmer weather for the winter?
snowbirds
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snowbirds from what area are all along the western coast of Florida?
- New Englanders
- New Yorkers
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snowbirds from what area are all along the Western coast of Florida?
Midwesterners
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What physical region goes very close to the coast from Georgia and points to New York City?
Piedmont
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What famous city in Georgia is part of Piedmont?
Atlanta
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what is the change in elevation in the Piedmont?
600-1200ft
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Why is the Piedmont histoically important?
- 3 of our nation's capitals have been there
- Washington DC, Philadelphia
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how many US presidents came from Virginia?
5
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where is most of our tobacco being shipped to?
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What interesting places have huge endowments from the tobacco industry?
- major colleges
- Duke, Ferman
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Where do we get great furniture from?
- Pennsylvania Dutch
- Lancaster
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Where is the place to vacation in the Piedmont?
the Blue Ridge Parkway
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Where does the Blue Ridge Parkway extend to?
from Georgia to Pennsylvania
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What are the main industries of the Piedmont?
- Tobacco
- great furniture
- vacationing
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the Appalachian mountains stretch across where?
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How high can the Appalchian mountains get?
5-6,000 ft
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what is an indicator that the Appalachian's aren't very tall mountains?
- they only reach 5-6,000ft
- the can't even get over the tree line
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What other mountain range are the Appalachians similar to?
the Ural mountains
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What made the Appalachian's famous?
black gold
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Where was coal first discovered?
Titusville, Pennsylvania
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where was iron and steel started?
Pittsburgh
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What did they start calling Pittsburgh and other coal cities when they went downhill?
the rust belt
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What area in north Appalacia did Jewish New Yorkers vacation?
the catskills
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what does the TVA stand for?
Tennessee Valley Authority
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who started making cheap industry with lots of dams?
the TVA
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what family is changing West Virginia?
Rockefellers
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before the TVA stepped in what are of Appalachia used to be really poor?
the Southern end
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