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- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
- Between now and the end of school, have your class become very knowledgeable about every issue in the controversial ethanol debate.
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- PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 2, 2008 - Week 9 1. NY Jets. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key October 5, 2008 - Week #5 1. Florida, Texas 2. San Diego Chargers, Boston(N.E.) Patriots 3. Albany, NY. Can anyone make a case for Madison, WI; or Salt Lake City, UT? If so, give them credit for at least they are learning states and capitals.
5. Bismarck, ND, on the Missouri River. It is said they gave Bismarck this spelling hoping to attract more German immigrants to North Dakota in the early part of the 20th Century. SGS 6. Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron and Lake Erie SGS 7. Cairo, IL. Pronounced Care-o or Karo(like the syrup). Not like Ki-ro in Egypt SGS 8. Minneapolis(MN) Vikings 9. Lake Pontchartrain. It’s not really a lake, it’s an estuary. SGS 10. Mt. Mitchell is the tallest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Mt. Washington gets all the publicity, but Mt. Mitchell is the tallest. 11. Mississippi’s delta or mouth, and the marshes of the Everglades. The Everglades is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles are found existing side by side. Source: Dallas Zoo. * In August 2008, environmentalists and the Miccosukee Indians said the EPA is not doing enough fast enough to lower the phosphorous levels in the Everglades as the EPA tried to push the Clean Water Act timetable back 10 years to 2016.
THE WORLD ALMANAC-2008, page 89. The U.S Dept. of Agriculture predicts 2008 to be a good year with 1.8 billion bushels of winter wheat, and 2.4 billion bushels of spring wheat, a 16% increase over 2007. Remember there was too much rain in eastern Kansas in 2007. ALERT! What do you students in Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota know about the fungus of stem rust? Find out about the spring wheat rust epidemic of the 1950s. 14. Carlsbad Caverns SGS Near Carlsbad is White’s City, and someone bought the town for $1.5 M. 15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Denver Broncos. Do you know about the Fourteeners of Colorado? THE WORLD ALMANAC-2008, page 699. There are 54 peaks in Colorado over 14,000 ft. You students in Panama City and Ft. Smith watch the Bucs go over. Any parents in Ft. Smith gone to work at QualServ? Who has parents working at Pradco? 16. Buffalo Bills 17. Detroit is the “Motor City”. Bet the students know about Motown Records.
Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers. www.fredericremington.org 19. Sports section. Mr. Runyan was born in Manhattan, KS. Do you think he was a Wildcat fan? From Manhattan, it would be heretical if he were a Jayhawk fan. 20. Minneapolis(MN) Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints continued 26
October 5, 2008 - Week #5 * Years of erosion and Hurricane Katrina have taken a terrible toll on the Louisiana coast line, and a battle is being waged to save it. Some people say Louisiana is losing an acre of coast every half-hour. There have been many plans to save the Everglades. The latest plan was announced in June of 2008, where the state of Florida is buying 187,000 acres from sugar mills to cleanse southbound water from Lake Okeechobee, restoring the natural filtering of the water the Everglades has provided. However, 300,000 acres used by other growers would remain in production. On July 17, 2008, five environmental groups filed suit against the EPA charging them of violating the Clean Water Act by failing to set standards for farm and urban runoff that is polluting Florida’s waterways. Any of you students in Florida know how this suit is coming along?
www.lca.gov/index.htm Louisiana Coastal Assn. & www.coast2050.gov www.crcl.org Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Ms. Goold thinks it’s true. NEXT WEEK: Questions followed by a hyphen or dash(-) are easier questions Appalachian, Rocky, Sierra Nevada, Cascade and Catskill Mountains Leif Erikson Day, and all the Vikings are happy Salton Sea and the nearby Chocolate Mountains Interior Uplands is the Ozark Plateau, but just the Ozarks to the locals. Corn Belt of the United States Straits of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Galveston Bay, Houston Ship Channel Columbus Day. Columbia, SC, Columbus, OH Eight states of the U.S. have Columbia counties. At least 11 states have towns named Columbia, and at least 12 states have towns named Columbus. Have students determine if there is one or the other in your state.
goal-setting habits in children’s lives so they can make their dreams come true. www.goalsguy.com Next week is Fire Prevention Week. Will there be a related Dear Abby column on Sunday or Monday? 27 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key October 12, 2008 - Week #6 PATRIOT-NEWS readers---Is the National Sports Hall of Fame going to be built in Harrisburg? 1. Boston(N.E.) Patriots 2- Atlanta, Indianapolis, Denver, Phoenix(AZ) * SGS 3- MD, WV, OH, IN. Monument Circle in Indianapolis is why it’s called “Circle City”. 4. Terre Haute, IN ** This answer may be almost impossible to find, so don’t stress the students out over answering correctly. We don’t want anyone’s blood to clabber. Any of you TRIBUNE-STAR readers selling Shovelnose sturgeon roe out of the Wabash River? Are you getting $45 a pound?
6- Columbia, SC. Ask the students if there is a Columbus, Columbia or Columbiana is your state. 7. Minneapolis(MN) Vikings. www.vikingship.org Ms. Jenko’s students better not miss this. This shouldn’t be any problem for students in Grand Forks and Fargo. Any of that money in Montrail County making its way across Highway 2 to Grand Forks?
9. Appalachian = Pennsylvania. Rocky = Colorado. Sierra Nevada = California SGS On January 6, 2008, a snow storm hit the Sierra Nevada Mts. closing I-80 and dumping 11 feet on the ski resorts around Lake Tahoe. Anyone remember that?
Do any students have an Adirondack brand baseball bat to show the class? SGS 11- Salton Sea. Chocolate Mts. 12. Arkansas If students in Ft. Smith miss this, Mr. Pendleton will be mad. 13. Bentonville, AR, the home of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Lowell is the home of J.B Hunt, & you see those trucks everywhere. (J.B. Hunt died in Nov. 2006) Tyson Chicken & HoneySuckle White are in Springdale. University of Arkansas is in Fayetteville. Daisy BB Guns used to be made in Rogers, but now are made nearby in Missouri. The Daisy museum is still in Rogers. Belle Vista Village is nice. Branson is near. Eureka Springs is called “Little Switzerland of the Ozarks.” Students might enjoy this site if they ever owned a Daisy BB gun. www.daisymuseum.com News is Wal-Mart is taking the hyphen out of their name. Will they become WalMart?
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Answer Key October 12, 2008 - Week #6 The high price of corn is affecting the price of other products because of fuel and distribution costs. How much more are you paying for cereal and getting it in smaller boxes? Isn’t it ironic that Congress is mandating more fuel efficiency with cars getting 35.7 mpg by 2015, but this is the same Congress that is mandating a three or four-fold increase in ethanol production that gives us less fuel efficiency. Isn’t this hypocritical? Is this a paradox? Is this an oxymoron? Discuss what steps have been taken by parents of students to deal with the price of fuel? How have their daily lives been impacted? Some legislators in the state of Oregon are having second thoughts about voting for ethanol just after one year. Do you ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD readers know about making ethanol with sweet sorghum? The research and experimenting is going on in Brevard County to your south. 15- PA, OH, IN, IL, IA, NE, CO, UT, NV, CA. Rule however you want about WV. 16. Cascade Mountain Range SGS 17- Bismarck, ND; Great Falls. MT. When the Packers go over Bismarck, they should remember that October 6th was National German-American Day. Did you party, Mr. Koenig? 18- Three times. IN-KY border. OH-KY border. OH-WV border. 19. Straits of Florida; across the Gulf of Mexico; into Galveston Bay; and up the Houston Ship Channel. * On this and succeeding quizzes, when the number of a question is followed by a hyphen or dash(-), this denotes the easy, repetitive questions about information most students should have acquired by now; especially if it is information coming directly from the "Study Hint Sheet". Some teachers may have their students answer only the questions followed by the hyphen or dash. ** U.S. Highway 40, the old National Road which opened the West for settlement, and U.S. Highway 41, a major north-south route linked the Great Lakes with the Ohio River. Their intersection in Terre Haute at Wabash Ave. and Seventh St. became the “Crossroads of America.” THE TRIBUNE-STAR students don’t have to answer this, but tell us if there is a historical marker at that intersection. If so, send Mr. Zigler a picture of the marker. *** Is this true? Huskerburgers are hamburgers shaped like the state of Nebraska. It is considered improper etiquette to consume it without first squirting ketchup in a meandering line down the meat’s middle to symbolize the great Platte River. **** Some maintain ethanol production is a waste of food, time, soil and water. Does it take 1,500 gallons of water to make one gallon of ethanol? By how much does it reduce your gas mileage? 20-25%? Latest figures indicate it costs $1.29 to make a dollars worth of ethanol in the United States. This isn’t true in Brazil where it’s efficiently made from sugar cane. A Cornell University study found that corn ethanol takes up to 40% more energy to produce than it provides as fuel. Can ethanol efficiently be refined from cellulous? The health of the Chesapeake Bay is precarious. Scientists think the demand for ethanol will cause more corn to be grown in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This runoff will contain more nitrogen further weakening the ecosystem of the bay. Think about the dead zone in the Gulf. NEXT WEEK: Natural boundaries – Products of many states – Time zones Unique “Y” bridge in Zanesville, OH Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers New York and California have reciprocating teams 29
October 19, 2008 - Week #7 1- Chicago 2- Buffalo. Guess you say the Chargers are “winging it” going to Buffalo. 3- New York, Florida, Missouri 4- Denver Broncos 5- Cincinnati. 6. OH, IN, IN, WV, KY 7. A famous “Y” bridge is there. One place in the world where you can cross a bridge and still be on the same side of the river. A place where you can go to the middle of the bridge and turn left.
confluence with the Tennessee River then on to the Ohio River. The Titans would then sail on to Cairo, IL, at the confluence with the Mississippi River then to the Missouri River north of St. Louis. Note: The Cumberland does flow to the Ohio, too, but ships go from Barkley Lake(Cumberland River) to Kentucky Lake(Tennessee River) through a canal three miles from Kentucky Dam. www.kentuckylake.com/usace.htm Look at Kids’ Corner for teacher and student information. 9. New York & California. San Francisco going to play the NY Giants, and NY Jets going to Oakland. 10. Seattle Seahawks visiting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11. __6__ Arkansas 1. apples SGS __2__ Florida 2. citrus __5__ Idaho 3. catfish __7__ Kansas 4. coal __3__ Mississippi 5. potatoes __1__ Washington 6. rice __4__ Wyoming 7. wheat 12. 6:30
13. 7:15 14. 10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 18th, is BRIDGE DAY when hundreds of parachute jumpers jump off the 876-foot New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, WV. Are there any pictures in Sunday’s newspaper? See the back of a West Virginia quarter. October 23rd is the day the swallows depart Mission San Juan Capistrano, but you never hear about the Departure because no song was written about it. Is reading a ruler, multiplying and dividing fractions part of your curriculum? If so, go to Week #16, page 51 and look at the suggestion for calculating mileage between cities. You may want to do some of this math practice and working with fractions long before you get to Week #16. NEXT WEEK: Latitude and longitude - Ft. Sumter in South Carolina Cruising from Seattle to San Francisco Redwood Empire in northwestern California Crater Lake and the caldera within Greenwich Meridian in London, England Corn Belt - Appalachian Trail Booker T. Washington www.tuskegee.edu USS Constitution A.K.A. “Old Ironsides” 30 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key October 26, 2008 - Week #8 1- Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks 2. Where a river flows into a bay to mix with ocean water. * SGS See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine “Chesapeake Bay--Hanging in the Balance”, June 1993, pages 2-35. The bay is losing oxygen & aquatic life. The algae Karlodinium micrum is increasing. Look for reports from the EPA and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Our Coasts in Crisis”, July 2006, pages 60-87. This articles is about the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts, and estuarine poor conditions. 3- Phoenix(AZ) Cardinals over Oklahoma City, OK Kansas City Chiefs over Springfield, IL Cleveland Browns over Charleston, WV
5. Civil War began 6. Cruising out of Elliott Bay, across the Puget Sound, through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, south on the Pacific Ocean, through the Golden Gate Strait, and into San Francisco Bay. On average, 24 people commit suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge each year. Should suicide barriers be installed at a cost of $25 - $50 million? Bridge authorities will decide in late 2008.
volcano, too. SGS 9. Caldera. NAT’L GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER, “Oregon’s Crater Lake”, Jan/Feb 2005 pages 53-56. The Okmok Caldera on a remote Alaskan island erupted on July 12, 2008, just hours after the Alaska Volcano Center detected small seismic tremors. 10. Boston 11. San Diego near 117 W. longitude. New Orleans is near 30 degrees N. lat. and 90 degrees W. long. 12. 0 or zero degrees long., or the prime meridian. Greenwich is a city that is a suburb of London. ** 13. Salem, OR 14- 2:00 SGS 15- 10:00 a.m. Remember, Phoenix never goes on DST, so their time is the same as if the were in the Pacific Time Zone. That’s why Phoenix is starred on the time zone map. 16. Oakland Raiders. By this date there should a strong indication of how the Midwest summer floods impacted the corn harvest. What economic news has been reported in your newspaper? **
but no questions will ever be asked about it. A sign near mile-marker 54 on I-26 near Hendersonville, NC, advises that you are crossing the Eastern Continental Divide at 2,130 ft. The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival is going on in Ferrum, VA. Check out about folk life in the Appalachians at: www.blueridgeinstitute.org 18. Springer Mountain, GA, to Mount Katahdin, ME. Have a couple of students use some yarn to mark the trail on a map from Springer Mountain, GA; Fontana Dam, NC; Damascus, VA; continued 31
Answer Key October 26, 2008 - Week #8 Pearisburg, VA; Waynesboro, VA; Harpers Ferry, WV; Wind Gap, PA; Danbury, CT; Great Barrington, MA; Hanover, NH; Monson, ME; Mount Katahdin, ME. SGS www.appalachiantrail.org. Many websites about the “AT”. See www.museumofappalachia.com 19. Booker T. Washington was the most influential black leader and educator of his time. He was the founder and head of the Tuskegee Institute. Know anything about the Tuskegee Airmen? *** 20. CA, NV, UT, CO, NE, IA, IL, IN, OH, WV, PA, MD 21. Boston(N.E.) Patriots. How many of you BOSTON HERALD students have been on “Old Ironsides”? Have any HERALD students peddled on the Minuteman Bikeway? 22. Nashville(TN) Titans. The first words Minnie Pearl would say when she came on stage at the Grand Ole Opry was, “How--- deeeeee.” Minnie Pearl died in 1996. * Last May, forest fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains destroyed redwood trees that were centuries old. Many fires in Northern California were the result of one of the driest springs on record. This just “adds fuel to the fire” debating as whether they should be growing rice in this part of California. ** On September 25, 1676, Greenwich Mean Time became the standard for England. On November 1, 1884, a 25 nation meeting in Washington, D.C. made it the standard for the world. You might want to use this as an opportunity to inform the students that a.m. is an abbreviation for ante meridian, and p.m. means post meridian as measured from the Greenwich Meridian or prime meridian. Greenwich time is sometime called zulu time. It is not at morning & past morning. Parallel is a synonym for latitude. Memory hint: The first syllable of latitude sounds the same as ladder. And rungs of a ladder are--parallel. Lines of longitude are also called meridians, as in the Greenwich Meridian which is the prime meridian from where all time is measured. *** The rains and flood in the Midwest in June of 2008, destroyed crops in about five million acres of farmland, or an area about the size of New Jersey. This shortage propelled corn past $7.00 a bushel on the futures market on June 24, 2008. **** Mr. Washington gave us great words to live by. "I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living." The half-way point of the season is upon us. Which quarterback is leading the NFL in passing accuracy? Is anyone matching or surpassing these statistics at this time? Check periodically during the rest of the season to see which QB might be eclipsing these records. Ken Anderson Cincinnati Bengals 1982 218-309 70.55% Sammy Baugh Washington Redskins 1945 128-182 70.33% Steve Young San Francisco 49ers 1994 324-461 70.28%
St. Louis NFL team moved to Phoenix. Cleveland team moved to Baltimore. Statue of Liberty dedicated in 1886 - Mammoth Cave in Kentucky Cereal grain producing states Be a horologist next Saturday with DST ending Have the boys be careful. November 1st is Sadie Hawkins Day. 32 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 2, 2008 - Week #9 1. NY Jets. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Erie Canal--Link to Our Past”, November 1990, pages 39-65. “I’ve got a mule, her name is Sal, 15 miles on the Erie Canal. . .” SGS www.songsforteaching.com/folk/eriecanal.htm From July 5, to July 12, 2008, 500 bicyclists from 35 states took part in the 10th annual “Cycling the Erie Canal” ride, going the 400 miles from Buffalo to Albany. 2- Indianapolis 3- New York 4- Dallas Cowboys 5. Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis in 1960, and the St. Louis (football) Cardinals became the Phoenix(AZ) Cardinals in 1988. Phoenix(AZ) is going back to St. Louis. Cleveland Browns became the Baltimore Ravens in 1996. Baltimore is going back to Cleveland. *
Do you BEAVER COUNTY TIMES students get to Titusville often? 7. Quaker State and Pennzoil. Wonder where Texaco had its start? On May 27, 1889, the South Penn Oil Co. was founded, and this later became the Pennzoil Co. Quaker State moved from Oil City, PA, to Irving, TX, in 1995. They then merged with Pennzoil in 1998, and moved headquarters to Houston, TX. On March 26, 2002, it was announced that Shell Oil would purchase Pennzoil- Quaker State for $1.8 billion. Most of the Texaco stations in Texas have become Shell stations.
The word cereal is from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain. 9. The leading ____corn_______ producing state is ___Iowa_________. The leading ____wheat______ producing state is ___Kansas_______. The leading ____rice________ producing state is ___Arkansas_____. The leading ____oats_______ producing state is ___Wisconsin_____. The leading ____barley_____ producing state is ___Alaska, but ND in the 48 states.
Have the students talk to mom and dad, or to the grocer. With so much corn going into ethanol production, by what percentage has the price of your cereal increased in the last 6-12 months and how much smaller have they made the cereal boxes? Anyone reporting on the pros & cons of ethanol?
11. Mammoth Cave National Park. Report anyone? It is unique because it is the longest recorded cave system in the world. Might be a whole geography/geology lesson on discussing how caves are formed. www.nps.gov/maca or www.mammoth.cave.national-park.com Do the students know the difference between stalactites and stalagmites? What is your memory trick for this? Stalagmites grow up mighty from the floor. Stalactites hang tight from the ceiling. 12. Horology is the science of measuring time and making clocks. You are in charge of setting the continued 33 Download 282.95 Kb. Share with your friends:
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