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A coast is land that borders an ocean. Coastal areas form a landform region called the coastal plain.
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A coastal plain is flat, level land along a coast.
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What are two main physical landform regions in the East? |
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- The Appalachian Mountains are one physical feature of the East.
- A coastal plain is another physical feature of the East.
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What effects have glaciers had on the East? |
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Glaciers have changed the shape of the Appalachian Mountains and created islands and capes.
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Where is the East region located? |
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The East region is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes.
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A bay is a body of water partly surrounded by land but open to the sea.
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A temperate climate means without extremes, such as the very cold weather in the Arctic or the very hot weather near the equator. The East is in a temperate climate. This gives the East four seasons.
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How did rivers, harbors, and bays effect the development of the East? |
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Sample answer: Rivers powered mills (like in Garrettsville) and bays and harbors were used for ships and shipping.
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Name three natural resources of the East. |
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How does environment affect human activity? |
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The resources in the East, as in all regions, affect the kinds of work people do and the homes they live in. Forests provide wood for homes, paper, furniture, and fuel. Wood can also be used to make chemicals for many other products, including plastics and textiles. Maple syrup comes from sugar maples. The Atlantic Ocean: lobsters, sardines, flounder and bass; Maryland and Delaware: blue crabs
Soil and climate of the East allow farmers to use their land in different ways. Bluberries: Maine and New Hampshire; Maine, Aroostook Valley: Potatoes. Massachusetts and New Jersey: Cranberries
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In a market economy, people are free to decide how to answer the three economic questions of what to make, how to make it, and for whom to make it.
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Profit is the money left over after a business pays its expenses. Some businesses make profits by selling natural resources. Others make goods from resources. Then they sell the goods. Paper, maple syrup, and furniture are goods made in the East.
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How is making goods different from performing services? |
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Making goods means creating a product. Performing a service is doing a job for someone else.
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Human resources are the services, knowledge, skills, education and intelligence that workers provide.
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Capital resources, also called capital goods, are the tools, machines, buildings, and other equipment that a business uses. Entrepreneurs are people willing to take the risk of starting new businesses. |
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What might an entrepreneur's solution to the risk of losing money be? |
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An entrepreneur must plan carefully and work hard.
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A ______ ______ can give people more freedom to choose how they work and live. |
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Name different landforms and waterways of the South |
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- plateaus
- hills
- valleys
- low coastal plains
- wetlands
- beaches
- swamps
- marshes
- rivers
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A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
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Finish this sentence: The Atlantic coastal plain extends .... |
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... from Florida along the Atlantic Ocean to Virginia. |
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Finish this sentence: The Gulf coastal plain stretches... |
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...from the Rio Grande River in Texas to the tip of the Florida peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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The climate of the South is ______ but it varies across the _______. |
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The climate of the south is warm but it varies across the region.
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To adapt means to change in order to better fit the environment. For example, mangrove trees have adapted over the centuries to survive in salty Florida swamps. They've developed broad roots that arch above the muddy soil. These roots work like snorkels. They help provide oxygen to the tree as water levels rise and fall. |
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Finish this sentence: The ____ climate and ______ natural ______ have allowed people to build a successful ______ in the South. Word Bank: economy, rich, resources, warm |
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The warm climate and rich natural resources have allowed people to build a successful economy in the South.
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In manufacturing, _____ turn raw materials into goods. |
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In manufacturing, producers turn raw materials into goods.
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A ______ is someone who buys or uses goods and services. |
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A consumer is someone who buys or uses goods and services.
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List three raw materials in the South |
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- coal below the ground
- oil below te ground
- fish in the waters
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What productive resources are needed to create cotton t-shirts? name four |
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- Rich soil
- Cotton plants
- Workers in textile mills
- T-Shirt manufacturers
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