Chapters 6 & 7 - The Southeast

Question 1

land that has water almost all around it

Answer 1

peninsula

Question 2

low-lying land where the water level is always near or above the surface of the land

Answer 2

wetland

Question 3

an area of high land at or near the foot of a mountain

Answer 3

piedmont

Question 4

a place where a river drops from higher to lower land

Answer 4

fall line

Question 5

the period of time when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow

Answer 5

growing season

Question 6

a huge tropical storm with heavy rains and winds of more than 73 miles per hour

Answer 6

hurricane

Question 7

materials added to the soil to make it more productive to help crops grow

Answer 7

fertilizer

Question 8

a huge farm where tobacco, cotton, rice, sugarcane, or indigo were the main crops grown

Answer 8

plantation

Question 8

the practice of making one person the property of another person

Answer 8

slavery

Question 9

a crop people raise to sell to others rather than to use themselves

Answer 9

cash crop

Question 10

to end

Answer 10

abolish

Question 11

The United States of America

Answer 11

Union

Question 12

to leave

Answer 12

secede

Question 13

The Confederate States of America, a new country that was formed by the Southern states that seceded from the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

Answer 13

Confederacy

Question 14

a war between groups of people in the same country

Answer 14

civil war

Question 15

the quality of being fair

Answer 15

justice

Question 16

the rights of citizens to equal treatment

Answer 16

civil rights

Question 17

a resource in its natural state, such as a mineral, that can be used to manufacture a product

Answer 17

raw material

Question 18

trade with other countries

Answer 18

international trade

Question 19

a good, or product, that is brought into one country from another to be sold; to bring in goods from another country to sell

Answer 19

import

Question 20

a product shipped from one country to be sold in another; to sell goods to people in another country

Answer 20

export

Question 21

a kind of bar graph that compares two sets of numbers

Answer 21

double-bar graph

Question 22

the legislative branch of state government

Answer 22

state legislature

Question 23

the head of the executive branch of state government

Answer 23

governor

Question 24

the cooking, canning, drying, freezing, and packaging of foods for market

Answer 24

food processing

Question 25

a soft mixture of ground-up wood chips and chemicals that is used to make paper

Answer 25

pulp

Question 26

shortened form of words high technology; having to do with inventing, building, or using computers and other kinds of electronic equipment

Answer 26

high-tech

Question 27

a wide area of the southern part of the United States that has a mild climate all year

Answer 27

Sun Belt

Question 28

the business of serving visitors

Answer 28

tourism

Question 29

a place where people go to relax and have fun

Answer 29

resort

Question 30

a low, narrow island that is near a coast

Answer 30

barrier island

Question 31

the continent or the part of a continent nearest to an island

Answer 31

mainland

Question 32

an area of land set aside to protect animals and other living things

Answer 32

wildlife refuge

Question 33

a stony material formed in tropical waters by the skeletons of tiny sea animals

Answer 33

coral

Question 34

a ridge of rocks, sand, or coral near the surface of the sea

Answer 34

reef

Question 35

the part of a map that compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world

Answer 35

map scale

Question 36

a custom, a way of life, or an idea that has been handed down from the past

Answer 36

tradition

Question 37

to return something, such as land, to its natural condition

Answer 37

reclaim

Question 38

being threatened with extinction

Answer 38

endangered

Question 39

no longer in existence, which is what a living thing becomes when all of its kind have died out

Answer 39

extinct