Alabama History Chapter 2

To go from Alabama to Ohio, you would travel in which direction?

• north

• south

• east

• west

The early settlers to Alabama were mostly

• business and bankers

• pilgrims and pharoahs

• royalty and slaves

• farmers and hunters

The early settlers came to Alabama in

• helicopters, trains, and buses

• wagons, carts, horses, mules, or by walking

• boats, cars, jeeps, bulldozers, and caterpillars

• power boats, river barges, paddlewheelers, and canoes

Many people have moved to Alabama because of:

• mild weather, good soil, plenty of water, and lots of natural resources

• tornadoes, hurricanes, sleet, and hail

• its closeness to the beach

• good football teams

Alabama has many rivers. Which one flows south to north?

• Tallapoosa

• Coccuh

• Tombigbee

• None of them

Which are considered wetlands in Alabama?

• rivers, lakes, pools, and torandoes

• sandstone ridges, grasslands, limestone bottoms, and coal mines

• delta, salt marshes, freshwater marshes, and swamps

• Mobile, Montgomery, Huntsville, and Andalusia

The length of Alabama's coastline on the Gulf of Mexico is

• 50 miles

• 200 miles

• 500 miles

• 1,000 miles

The temperature in Alabama can best be described as

• Summers are short and warm and winters are long and cold.

• Summers and long and cool and winters are wet and mild.

• Summers are short and hot and winters are cold and dry.

• Summers are long and warm and winters are short and mild.

Alabama is most likely to get

• tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hurricanes.

• rain, sleet, and snow.

• ice, cool and hot streaks.

• sandstorms, hail, and sunshine

Ecosystems are

• towns and cities below the Fall Line.

• plants, animals, air, water, soil, and climate.

• flocks of Canada geese that migrate to Alabama in the winter.

• special places where people meet to eat.