Middle-Atlantic States Review

Question 1

What valley was the first to produce "golden-delicious" apples?

Accepted Answer

Shenandoah Valley

Question 2

Why is Washington D.C. a separate territory?

Accepted Answer

So a state could not control the capital of our nation.

Question 3

True or False: New York City isn't headquarters for the United Nations.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

What city did William Penn plan?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 5

True or False: No ice, fast currents and deep water are why the Boston, New York, & Philadelphia ports are good ports.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

True or False: Wilmington is the chemical capital of the US.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What are three issues that affect most of the United States today?

Accepted Answer

All of the above and more

Question 8

What is the "Old Line State"?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 9

True or False: The capital of Pennsylvania is Providence.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

What is the "Garden State"?

Accepted Answer

New Jersey

Question 11

True or False: The city of the largest silk weaving center is New York.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

In what city is the U.S. naval academy located?

Accepted Answer

Annapolis

Question 13

True or False: Washington D.C. was designed by Pierre L'Enfant.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Who was Francis Scott Key?

Accepted Answer

The author of "Star Spangled Banner"

Question 15

True or False: Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the two states that lead the U.S. into coal production.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

What is the capital of New York?

Accepted Answer

Albany

Question 17

What RIVER VALLEY developed the golden-delicious apple?

Accepted Answer

Shenandoah River Valley. Duh

Question 18

True or False: Francis S. Key wrote the nation anthem in the War of 1812

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

What three rivers meet at Pittsburgh?

Accepted Answer

Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers

Question 20

Maryland was named after Charles II's wife.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What is the Fall Line?

Accepted Answer

The zone demarcating the Piedmont from the Atlantic Coastal Plain

Question 22

True or False: The Delaware and Chesapeake Bays are the 2 smallest bays in this region.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

What state is the "Keystone State"?

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania

Question 24

True or False: Delaware is the "Blue Hen State".

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

True or False: New Jersey doesn't produce the most pig iron and steel

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

The Adirondacks are located in what state?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 27

True or False: Humid continental and humid subtropical are the two climate zones.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

True or False: Baltimore is the SECOND largest port in the U.S.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

True or False: Taxes and federal funds are the largest source of income for Washington D.C.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

True or False: New York City is located at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

What are northeasters?

Accepted Answer

A weather pattern that brings snowfall to the region from the Northeast.

Question 32

True or False: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia are the six Mid-Atlantic states.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

True or False: The Shenandoah Valley is NOT important to West Virginia.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

What are the five cities in the Megalopolis?

Accepted Answer

Boston, Baltimore, New York, Washington D.C., & Philadelphia

Question 35

What is a Quaker?

Accepted Answer

A member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement.

Question 36

True or False: Niagara falls is in Vermont

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

True or False: The Netherlands founded New York and named it New Amsterdam.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

True or False: Delaware is the First State.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

What are the three ports of the Mid-Atlantic region?

Accepted Answer

Boston, New York, and Philadelphia

Question 40

What are the three landforms of the Mid-Atlantic Sates?

Accepted Answer

Piedmont, Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Coastal Plains

Question 41

What is the "city of brotherly love"?

Accepted Answer

Philadelphia

Question 42

How was West Virgina created?

Accepted Answer

Granted statehood as a non-slave state during the Civil War.

Question 43

James Hopkins University is in what city?

Accepted Answer

Baltimore

Question 44

True or False: New York ISN'T the Empire State.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

What are capital of the Mid-Atlantic states?

Accepted Answer

Albany, Harrisburg, Dover, Trenton, Annapolis, & Charleston

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