Quiz about The Southeast Test Review

Question 1

How many states are in the Southeast?

Accepted Answer

13

Answer

9

Answer

11

Answer

15

Question 2

What is the name of the highest peak east of the Mississippi River in North Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Mount Mitchell

Answer

Mount Rushmore

Answer

Mount Washington

Answer

Mount Olympus

Question 3

What city is the oldest continually occupied city in the United States?

Accepted Answer

St. Augustine

Answer

St. Marys

Answer

St.Paul

Answer

St. Mitchell

Question 4

In ________ Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon led an expedition to find the mythical Fountain of Youth?

Accepted Answer

1513

Answer

1510

Answer

1515

Answer

1518

Question 5

In 1607, how many ships arrived in a bay in the New World?

Accepted Answer

three

Answer

two

Answer

four

Answer

five

Question 6

What is the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Accepted Answer

Jamestown

Answer

Spokane

Answer

Millville

Answer

Tampa

Question 7

The French settled what city in 1718?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Answer

Montgomery

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Jackson

Answer

Baton Rouge

Question 8

What year did the US buy New Orleans?

Accepted Answer

1803

Answer

1718

Answer

1760

Answer

1912

Question 9

The native people were called?

Accepted Answer

Both

Answer

Powhatan of Virginia

Answer

Tequesta of Florida

Answer

Neither

Question 10

Ponce de Leon claimed land for King Ferdinand and called it what?

Accepted Answer

Florida

Answer

Georgia

Answer

Alabama

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Tennessee

Question 11

The Application range is the longest in the Southeast, it spans less than 1,500 miles.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 12

A piedmont is an area of high, hilly land at the foot of a mountain range.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 13

The ___________ Plateau is in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Accepted Answer

Cumberland

Answer

Applicahian

Answer

Piedmont

Answer

Mammoth

Question 14

The ________ Plateaus are in Arkansas.

Accepted Answer

Ozark

Answer

Cumberland

Answer

Plymouth

Answer

Kentucky

Question 15

Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is ____________.

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Answer

grand

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gloomy

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peculiar

Question 16

The Mammoth Cave is _________ miles of passages, it's the longest cave system known.

Accepted Answer

405

Answer

400

Answer

410

Answer

415

Question 17

Swamps and marshes are examples of _________, or areas of land covered by water.

Accepted Answer

wetlands

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caves

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coastals

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frozen

Question 18

In 2010, an explosion on ____________ Horizon oil rig caused one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

Accepted Answer

Deepwater

Answer

Hurricanes

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Ozark

Answer

Mammoth

Question 19

More than 130 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 20

The World Meteorological Organization names the hurricanes each year starting with the letter z and going backwards through the alphabet.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 21

In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the gap, he called it ______________.

Accepted Answer

Wilderness Road

Answer

The Gap

Answer

Pioneer Ave

Answer

Cherokee

Question 22

In 1861, ______ southern states seceded from the Union. They called themselves the Confederate State of America, or the Confederacy.

Accepted Answer

11

Answer

9

Answer

13

Answer

15

Question 23

If you lived in the North or the Union, ____________ was your president.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Answer

George Washington

Answer

John Adams

Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 24

If you lived down in the South, in the Confederacy, you called ______________ your president.

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Answer

George Bush

Answer

Thomas Walker

Answer

Daniel Boone

Question 25

On April ____, 1861, fighting between the Confederate and Union Soldiers broke out in Charleston, South Carolina and that was the beginning of the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

12

Answer

8

Answer

10

Answer

14

Question 26

The Civil War in this country lasted _______ years. About 750,000 soldiers died.

Accepted Answer

four

Answer

two

Answer

three

Answer

five

Question 27

The war ended on April 9, _______. A few months later, the 13th Amendment was passed, it abolished slavery in the United States.

Accepted Answer

1865

Answer

1861

Answer

1871

Answer

1875

Question 28

A network of people who helped enslaved African Americans escape to the North was called the Underground Railroad.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 29

Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and became a writer and an _____________.

Accepted Answer

abolitionist

Answer

poet

Answer

painter

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slave

Question 30

Booker T. Washington founded the ___________, a school in Alabama that trained African American teachers. Today, it's a major university.

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Institute

Answer

Rowen University

Answer

Drexel

Answer

Temple

Question 31

Ships leaving the Southeast ports carry exports all over America only.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 32

An _____________ is a good shipped from one country to be sold in another.

Accepted Answer

export

Answer

import

Question 33

In 2016 which state had more exports to Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana

Answer

Florida

Question 34

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway near New Orleans spans almost __________ miles across open water.

Accepted Answer

23

Answer

20

Answer

21

Answer

22

Question 35

What is the official name of the bridge that has underwater tunnels that goes across the Chesapeake Bay?

Accepted Answer

Lucius J. Kellam Jr

Answer

Delaware Memorial

Answer

Benjamin Franklin

Answer

Walt Whitman

Question 36

An _________ is a good brought into on country from another.

Accepted Answer

import

Answer

export

Question 37

The United States imports ________?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Answer

cars

Answer

electronics

Answer

clothing

Question 38

Who invented the shipping container?

Accepted Answer

Malcom McLean

Answer

Jack Charleston

Answer

Lucius J. Kellam

Answer

Daniel Boone

Question 39

Today almost _______ percent of everything we buy arrives via ship.

Accepted Answer

90

Answer

80

Answer

70

Answer

95

Question 40

At any given moment, how many containers are crossing the seas?

Accepted Answer

20 million

Answer

5 millon

Answer

10 million

Answer

15 million

Question 41

Lighthouses helped sailors find the land.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 42

Today ships _______ depend on lighthouses.

Accepted Answer

rarely

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often

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always

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never

Question 43

A boardwalk is a walkway along a _______.

Accepted Answer

beach

Answer

town

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city

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lake

Question 44

The wild ponies are herded across the water by the _________.

Accepted Answer

Saltwater Cowboys

Answer

Cowboys

Answer

water

Answer

towns people

Question 45

The Saltwater Cowboys start on Chincoteague Island and go to Assateague Island.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 46

Many people who live in Baltimore Maryland work in what city?

Accepted Answer

Washington D.C

Answer

New York City

Answer

Durham

Answer

Quantico

Question 47

What city does the FBI train in?

Accepted Answer

Quantico

Answer

Durham

Answer

Baltimore

Answer

Raliegh

Question 48

The Carolinas are famous for shrimp and _______.

Accepted Answer

grits

Answer

rice

Answer

apples

Answer

peaches

Question 49

Crab cakes are a local favorite in this state.

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Answer

New York

Answer

Florida

Answer

Virginia

Question 50

What is the name of the world's largest "office park"?

Accepted Answer

Research Triangle Park

Answer

Washington D.C.

Answer

Durham, North Caolina

Answer

Biotechnology

Question 51

How many states are considered part of the Golf Coast States?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

3

Answer

5

Answer

6

Question 52

New Orleans, Louisiana is the birthplace of _______.

Accepted Answer

jazz

Answer

piano

Answer

bells

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drums

Question 53

There are _____________ of islands off of the Gulf Coast.

Accepted Answer

hundreds

Answer

tens

Answer

thousands

Answer

millions

Question 54

The Florida Keys are a chain of islands stretching about ___________ miles out to sea.

Accepted Answer

200

Answer

100

Answer

150

Answer

250

Question 55

Coral is a stone-like material made of skeletons of tiny sea animals.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 56

A reef is an underwater ridge of rocks, sand, or coral at the bottom of the sea.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 57

What is the fast-growing group in the Gulf Coast?

Accepted Answer

Latinos

Answer

Irish

Answer

Italians

Answer

Germans

Question 58

Where do naval aviators, or pilots train at in Pensacola Florida?

Accepted Answer

Naval Air Station

Answer

Smithsonian

Answer

Air Force Base

Answer

NASA

Question 59

The U.S.S Spiegel Grove, a U.S Navy Ship, was intentionally sunk off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, in?

Accepted Answer

2002

Answer

2001

Answer

2003

Answer

2000

Question 60

What is a popular style of food in Louisiana?

Accepted Answer

Cajun

Answer

pie

Answer

alligator tail

Answer

spice

Question 61

How many states are considered part of the Inland South States?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

3

Answer

5

Answer

6

Question 62

What do National Parks protect?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Answer

land

Answer

water

Answer

wildlife

Answer

culture/history

Question 63

What is the name of the park where you can watch live reenactments of early settlers' lives?

Accepted Answer

Ozark Folk Center State Park

Answer

Smoky Mountains National Park

Answer

Parvin State Park

Answer

Yellowstone National Park

Question 64

Bluegrass is a kind of folk music born in?

Accepted Answer

Appalachia

Answer

Nashville

Answer

Louisville

Answer

New Orleans

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