Southeast quiz vocab [america]

what is a hurricane?

• A storm with heavy rains and strong winds.

• A violently rotating column of air.

• A sudden and violent shaking of the ground.

• A triangle-shaped area of land at the end of a river.

What is a delta?

• A violently rotating column of air.

• A triangle-shaped area of land at the end of a river.

• A natural resource found in rocks.

• A large farm where cotton is grown.

What does navigable mean?

• Where the river drops off.

• The hilly region at the base of a mountain.

• Deep and wide enough for ships to use.

• All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

What is a savanna?

• All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

• An area low-land that is covered by water.

• A flat grassland.

• The business of growing crops and raising animals.

What are foothills?

• Deep and wide enough for ships to use.

• A protest against segregation, a fight for equal rights.

• The hilly region at the base of a mountain.

• A large farm where cotton is grown.

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

• An area low-land that is covered by water.

• The business of growing crops and raising animals.

• Where the river drops off.

• A protest against segregation, a fight for equal rights.

What is a plantation?

• A storm with heavy rains and strong winds.

• All the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

• A large farm where cotton is grown.

• A triangle-shaped area of land at the end of a river.

What is agriculture?

• A flat grassland.

• The business of growing crops and raising animals.

• The hilly region at the base of a mountain.

A industry is all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service.

• True

• False

The fall line is an area low-land that is covered by water.

• True

• False