Question 1

What is a plantation?

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a large farm where enslaved workers take care of the crops

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a place where people work for a little money and all the food they can eat

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a place for teaching about religion

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a small log cabin where enslaved people live for free

Question 2

What is a textile?

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cloth

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a kind of food

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a carnival

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a parade

Question 3

Mardi Gras is held every February in

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New Orleans

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Charleston

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Huntsville

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Louisville

Question 4

Which is a major waterway of the South?

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the Mississippi River

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the Snake River

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the Missouri River

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the Ohio River

Question 5

What is the delta?

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an area of land formed when water drops silt near the end of the river

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a dry area where few plants grow

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low land between hills or mountains

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land mostly surrounded by water but connected to the mainland

Question 6

Which is not a way the early Native Americans used the the land of the South?

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They built large cities by the ocean

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They cleared the forests to plant crops

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They used materials from nature to build homes

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They hunted and fished

Question 7

A civil war is a war in which

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two parts of a country fight against each other

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one continent goes to battle with another continent

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nations fight against each other over boundaries

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tw0 countries with different views fight each other

Question 8

What is a mission?

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a place for teaching a religion

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a place where Europeans were forced to live

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a place to teach others new ways of farming

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good farmland

Question 9

Who were the first Europeans to come to the South?

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the Spanish in the 1500s

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the French in the 1500s

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the English in the 1200s

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the Germans in the 1400s

Question 10

Which is a major crop grown in the South?

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peanuts

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wheat

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strawberries

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bananas

Question 11

Which state is Not in the Midwest?

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Oregon

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Ohio

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Michigan

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Iowa

Question 12

What is a pioneer?

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a person who settles in a new area

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someone who traps and trades fur

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someone who lives on the plains

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a farmer who grows corn and wheat

Question 13

What is a tornado?

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a huge, swirling windstorm

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a very powerful storm with strong winds and heavy rain

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a storm with heavy snowfall and high winds

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a windstorm that blows dust, following a long period of no rain

Question 14

What is an aquifer?

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an underground collection of water

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an animal that lives in water

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another name for a waterfall

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a storm causing large amounts of rain

Question 15

What is a prairie?

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a large area of flat or rolling treeless grasslands

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low land between hills or mountains

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a bowl shaped area of land surrounded by higher land

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a body of water covering a large area of the earth

Question 16

What is an ancestor?

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a family  member from long ago

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someone born in another country

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someone who teaches religion

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a friend in your community

Question 17

What is an ethnic group?

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people who share the same culture

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people who decide who gets to come into the U.S.

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people who sell things to other countries

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people who brings goods to the U.S. from other countries

Question 18

What does telecommunications mean?

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sending messages over long distance, sometimes using satellites

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a way to give the news everyday

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a way to spread the news through print to many people

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sending messages locally as fast as you can

Question 19

What is a transportation system?

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the different types of transportation that people can choose from

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a company that is creating new forms of transportation

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a way to keep the air clean

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the very first automobile

Question 20

Which can be recycled?

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all of the above

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paper

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glass

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plastic

Question 21

What might the space program do in the future?

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all of the above

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the U.S. may focus on building satellites

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Astronauts may be sent to Mars

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the U.S. may build a space station

Question 22

Why is Cape Canaveral a good place for launching spacecrafts?

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it is located near the coast, so that when a shuttle is launched, part of the rocket falls into the ocean

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the climate is very warm there and the weather never keeps spacecrafts from launching

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many people who live nearby want to be astronauts, so its easy to find people to work there

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most American aircraft is made in Florida

Question 23

What is ground water?

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water that collects beneath the surface of the earth

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water that rises up above the ground after it rains

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puddles that form on streets when snow melts or rain falls

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all of the above

Question 24

Which is an important wet in the South?

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the Florida Everglades

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the Mississippi River

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Virginia Beach

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the Pensacola River

Question 25

Many Cajun songs are sung in

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French

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Spanish

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Italian

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Polish

Question 26

What doe RTP stand for?

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Research Triangle Park

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Research Training Park

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Research Texas Park

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Research Triple Place

Question 27

What does manufacture mean?

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to something by a machine

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to move to the North from the South

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to work in a factory

Question 28

Why do people move to the South?

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the weather is warmer and the cost of living is lower

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to go to the many universities that were founded in the 1600s

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so they can work on a farm

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for skiing in the winter

Question 29

What is a spiritual?

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a kind of religious song

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a fast moving song sung on the holiday

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a tradition in which people eat stew

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a birthday tune

Question 30

Where is the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge?

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Georgia

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all of the above

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Alabama

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Tennessee

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