Name _________________________________ Date __________________
Southeast Region Study Guide
Test on Wednesday, February 11, 2015
A. Sun Belt
F. minerals
B. strip mine
G. delta
Vocabulary Word Box
C. petroleum
D. fall line
H. piedmont
I. natural
resources
E. floodplain
J. hurricane
1. _______ dangerous storms with high winds and heavy rains.
2. _______ triangular area shaped land at the end of a river.
3. _______ a low flat area along a river.
4. _______ natural substances found in rocks.
5. _______ thick, black oily liquid found underground.
6. _______ land, oceans, forests, minerals ,and fuels.
7. _______ the place where there is a sharp drop in elevation where a waterfall is formed.
8. _______ a place where minerals are scraped from the surface of the ground.
9. _______ an area of low rolling hills.
10. _______ an area in the Southeast that has a mild climate year round.
What is the capital of:
1. West Virginia
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2. Virginia
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3. Kentucky _________________________
4. Tennessee _________________________
5. North Carolina
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6. South Carolina
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7. Mississippi _________________________
8. Alabama
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9. Georgia
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10. Florida
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11. Arkansas _________________________
12. Louisiana _________________________
Matching
1.______ A vast swamp that covers the southern
tip of Florida.
A. coal
2. _____ Home of the John F. Kennedy Space Center
B. bayou
3. _____ The business of growing crops/raising animals. C. industry
4. _____ Affects climate, soil, and travel.
D. petrochemicals
5. _____ A stream flowing trough swampy land.
E. Cape Canaveral
6. _____ Chemicals made from oil.
F. Everglades
7. _____ A business that produces one kind of good
or service.
G. agriculture
8. _____ Used to heat and produce electricity.
H. elevation
9. _____ A city that has a blend of the Spanish, French, I. New Orleans
and African cultures.
Answer these questions.
1. Why did more than half of the settlers in Jamestown Virginia die in the first year?
2. What is the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement?
3. What is segregation?
4. Who is Rosa Parks?
5. Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
6. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955?
7. What is the civil rights movement?
8. ______________________ is rich in minerals and miners dig for coal there.