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| major natural resources of the Southeast | wide rivers, warm climate, coal |
| New Orleans | The birthplace of Jazz |
| Nashville | "Music City, USA" |
| peat | Decayed plants that sank to the bottom of a swamp. |
| was fought in the Southeast | civil war |
| Everglades wetland wilderness located here | Florida |
| Mississippi River | flows through the western part of the SE region |
| Kentucky | racehorses are raised here |
| the Great Smoky Mountains are part of this range | Appalachian Mountains |
| Mississippi River, Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean | large bodies of water that have a major effect on the SE economy |
| source of a river | a river's starting point |
| mouth of a river | the place where a river empties into an ocean or another large body of water |
| source of the Mississippi River | Lake Itasca, Minnesota |
| mouth of the Mississippi River | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Agriculture | the business of growing crops and raising animals |
| Favorable climate | warm weather and enough rain allows farmers to grow many crops |
| Tourism | the warm climate also brings visitors |
| Growing season | the number of days in a year when the weather is warm enough for crops to grow |
| peanuts | need a 4-5 month growing season; Georgia, Alabama, & North Carolina are major producers |
| cash crop | a crop grown to be sold for money |
| tobacco | Virginia’s first cash crop |
| rice | Arkansas’ cash crop – due to warm climate & plentiful rain |
| oranges | Florida’s cash crop |
| unexpected freeze | can cause the loss of a whole harvest and damage the trees |
| climate | in the SE region has affected the way people make a living |
| Cause clue words | because, since, as a result of |
| Effect – clue words | so, therefore, as a result |
| Cause | something that makes something else happen |
| Effect | what happens as a result of something else |
| delta | land formed by the soil a river deposits |
| river basin | All the land drained by a river |
| tributary | Smaller rivers that feed into a large river |
