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- PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key December 7, 2008 - Week 14 1- Nashville, Denver, Phoenix, Indianapolis SGS
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
- Great Lakes Water Resource Compact
PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 30, 2008 - Week #13 Last week we discussed Lake Barkley, and Monday, November 24th, is Alben W. Barkley’s birthday. He was born in 1877, and became the 35th vice-president of the United States. 1- Ohio, Texas, New York, California 2- “Filadelphia” at “Foenix” Yes, a bird lover would want to Eagles & Cardinals play. 3- Phoenix(AZ) Cardinals over Jefferson City, MO San Francisco 49ers over Madison, WI Denver Broncos over Lincoln, NE
6. Lake Mendota and Lake Monona 7. Cumberland, MD. www.nps.gov/choh How many steps into American history do you want to take? The Baltimore & Ohio was the first railroad in America. Sept. 18, 1830, is the day the horse outran the “Iron Horse”, the Tom Thumb. See: www.borail.org/. Then the Cumberland Road which became the National Road, etc. The C&O Canal was needed for competition with the Erie Canal for markets in the West. The Erie Canal was completed in 1825. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “America’s First Highway”, March 1998, pages 82 - 99. You students in Toledo and Cincinnati know about the Miami-Erie Canal. 8. Minneapolis, St. Louis 9. Minneapolis(MN) Vikings. I hope they have the “Pillsbury Doughboy” there, too. 10. Neil Armstrong
September 1994 and October 2000, have articles about the Sonoran Desert. SGS Talk to your produce man about what we get from the Imperial Valley.
* The Atchafalaya basin is the largest river-basin swamp in North America. Study the basin with the northern border of I-10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette running down to the Gulf of Mexico. It is in trouble of silting because levees have been built 15 miles apart north and south, and oil companies have built a series of east-west pipeline canals. All this excavation halted the natural north-south flow of water which replenishes the marshes. Our wetlands are in trouble. We are losing about 80,000 acres per year, or the area of a football field every nine(9) minutes. Ducks Unlimited is an organization working to save our wetlands.
November 30, 2008 - Week #13 ** Much of the iceberg lettuce you will eat this winter comes from the Imperial Valley and the Gila River around Yuma, AZ. Carrots, too. The Imperial Valley is irrigated by the Colorado. Too much demand, too little water. Are you aware of the recent agreements between cities in CA & AZ, and Imperial Valley farmers over rights to water from the Colorado River? Information on www.doi.gov/water2025 www.r5.fs.fed.us/water_resources. Good site for students in California.
Brownsville, TX, but it is not yet economical to do so. Time will tell. SGS See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “The Colorado: A River Drained Dry”, June 1991, pages 4-34 NEXT WEEK: A question on many Interstate highways Capital cities along I-80 and the infamous Donner Pass College World Series in Omaha, NE Review of the Corn Belt – Review of spring & winter wheat Free ice water in Wall, SD; & the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD Who are the presidents on Mt. Rushmore? Vidalia onions from Georgia Vieux Carre of New Orleans and the Underground of Atlanta San Andreas Fault - San Joaquin Valley Mesabi Range for iron ore in Minnesota Wolves or timber wolves in the North Woods of Minnesota Eastern and western states bordering the Mississippi River Population center of the United States Niagara Falls New Madrid in the “Bootheel” of Missouri Earthquake in New Madrid created Reelfoot Lake in TN. Boston is the city with the “Emerald Necklace”. Seattle is the “Emerald City”. Red River of the North ND/MN border. Red River on TX/OK border In memory of Pearl Harbor A long and detailed list of questions for next week. Please preview it carefully and determine how many questions you want to assign. Hope many of you OMAHA WORLD-HERALD students are planning on attending the Ethnic Holiday Festival next week at the Durham Museum. www.dwhm.org In July 2008, TRAVEL + LEISURE magazine reported on a poll showing the top 10 travel destinations of their readers. The list is: 1) Bangkok, Thailand; 2) Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3) Cape Town, South Africa; 4) Sydney, Australia; 5) Florence, Italy; 6) Cuzco, Peru; 7) Rome, Italy; 8) New York City; 9) Istanbul, Turkey; 10) San Francisco, CA. Can students locate all these countries on a world map? Good project to have them do so. Note: Bangkok was #3 in the 2007 poll. Florence was #1 in 2007, and Cuzco, Peru is a newcomer to the list. www.travelandleisure.com 45
December 7, 2008 - Week #14 1- Nashville, Denver, Phoenix, Indianapolis SGS 2- Atlanta Falcons near Montgomery, AL Cleveland Browns near Columbus, OH; & Frankfort, KY Minneapolis(MN) Vikings near St. Paul, MN; & Lansing, MI Tampa Bay Buccaneers over Columbia, SC 3- San Diego 4. Oakland on I - 5, Kansas City on I - _70, Boston(N.E.) on I - 90, Minneapolis(MN) on I - 94, Cincinnati on I - 74, Philadelphia on I - 95, NY Jets on I - 80. Inform the students that I - 90, running from Boston to Seattle is the longest Interstate in the nation. SGS
8. College World Series. Winner in 2008 was Fresno State, a real Cinderella team. FRESNO BEE readers are still celebrating. 9. Ice water 10. Corn Palace. www.cornpalace.org 11. G. Washington, A. Lincoln, T. Jefferson, T. Roosevelt. SGS The presidents were given a “facial” in July of 2005 to remove decades of damaging dirt, grime & lichens. Washington = Liberty/Independence; Lincoln = Unity/Preservation; Jefferson = Growth/Expansion; Roosevelt =Courage/bravery/conservation. www.nps.gov/moru 12. San Andreas Fault and San Joaquin Valley. ** SGS 13. 1. Castroville _10__ almonds & pears This website may help. www.cfaitc.org 2. Fallbrook __1__ artichokes www.artichoke-festival.org 3. Fresno _12__ asparagus www.asparagusfest.com 4. Gilroy __2__ avocados 5. Indio __5__ dates 6. Lompoc __6__ flowers 7. Napa Valley __8__ fruit & vegetable seeds 8. Oxnard __4__ garlic www.gilroygarlicfestival.com 9. Richvale __7__ grapes 10. Sacramento _13__ horseradish 11. Salinas _14__ lemon festival in September 12. Stockton _13__ “milk it for all it’s worth” 13. Tulare County _17__ prunes 14. Tulelake __3__ raisins 15. Ventura County __9__ rice www.mbsf.com 16. Watsonville _11__ spinach 17. Yuba City _16__ strawberries continued 46
December 7, 2008 - Week #14 NOTE: You may not choose to do the above matching activity as students may care little about Calif. If this is the case, you are encouraged to have your students do research and come up with the same type of activity for cities within YOUR STATE. It doesn’t have to be about produce. Let it be about whatever a city is noted for. Just an example of what you might do for Illinois. 1. Belleville _8_ Caterpillar 2. Bloomington _2_ Insurance 3. Carbondale _7_ John Deere Co. 4. Chicago _4_ John Hancock Building 5. Collinsville _1_ Scott Air Force Base 6. Granite City _3_ Southern Illinois University 7. Moline _6_ Steel mills 8. Peoria _5_ World’s largest catsup bottle www.catsupbottle.com 14. Sweet Vidalia onions are an herb-vegetable belonging to the lily family. You students in Longmont probably know about onions, too. Find out about the “1015” onion developed in Texas. 15. Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints. Discuss the future of New Orleans with your students. Seek opinions from the students’ parents. See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Should New Orleans Rebuild?”, August 2007, pages 32 – 67.
17. Mississippi River. The Mississippi drains 31 states and parts of Canada. SGS 18. Mesabi Range *** 19. Wolf or Timber wolf. The name of the NBA team in Minnesota is the Timberwolves. www.wolf.org 20. Eastern border—west side = MN, IA, MO, AR, LA Western border—east side = WI, IL, KY, TN, MS 21. Houston Texans **** 22- Niagara Falls. A highway has been renamed, and many fans will be driving to the game on Timothy J. Russert Memorial Blvd. 23. The “Bootheel” of Missouri 24. An earthquake with quakes that lasted to February 12, 1812. It is reported the Mississippi River ran backwards, and this earthquake created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee. Madrid is pronounced Mad’ rid. Not Ma drid’ as in Spain.
March 2005, pages 32 – 51 26. Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior. Want to have a student give a one or two minute report on the purpose of the totem pole for the Indians in the great Northwest? 27- Red River 28- Red River of the North 29. Most rivers of the Great Plains flow in a somewhat southeasterly direction. Red River of the North flows north. Anyone in Fargo ever float to Grand Forks? SGS continued 47
December 7, 2008 - Week #14 30. Pearl Harbor * Has anyone in class been keeping a list of the pros and cons of ethanol? Congress has mandated that the automobile industry build more fuel efficient cars, and at the same time mandated the United States use nine billion gallons of ethanol by 2009. This is a major paradox, we have to build more fuel efficient car to be powered by less fuel efficient biofuel. In July of 2008, a consortium of large companies formed the Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy to promote the idea that we can have food and fuel at the same time. Over time, it is predicted this business group will get deep into your pockets as prices related to food will be inflated. In 1980, 0.37% of grain went to ethanol, in 2008 it was 28.5%. Source: Earth Policy Institute. ** On July 29, 2008, there was a 5.4 earthquake centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Little damage was done, but the quake was felt in San Diego and Las Vegas. The Northbridge earthquake, 6.7, did major damage on January 17, 1994, and there was a 7.1 quake in the desert in 1999. Many people will recall the devastating earthquake in San Francisco during the World Series in 1989, and we won’t mention San Francisco 1906. *** A formation in the Iron Range, dubbed the Duluth Complex, is drawing attention from geologists as they think there is a deposit of perhaps six billion metric tons of ore laden with copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, gold and cobalt. Ms. Jenko, tell us about this. I’ll spread the word. **** Have a student(s) plot the shifts in the center of population on a map from 1790 to 2000 by consulting THE WORLD ALMANAC-2008, page 593. On April 23, 2001, a brass marker was placed in concrete at Edgar Springs, MO, to commemorate it being the population center of the United States based on the 2000 census. This new center is 12.1 miles south and 32.5 miles west of the 1990 center which was 9.7 miles southeast of Steelville. The new center is bases on a population count of 281,421,906. We now have over 300, 000, 000 people. NEXT WEEK: Transcontinental flight Source and mouth of the Missouri River Metropolis, IL, is “Superman City” Rust Belt of the United States Snake migration in southern Illinois near Cape Girardeau, MO Royal Gorge Bridge and the Arkansas River French Broad & Holston rivers form the Tennessee River near Knoxville Washington, D.C., Cincinnati and Kansas City near the 39th parallel Highway 61, the “Blues Highway” through Mississippi. Play some blues in class. Jacksonville, FL, is largest city in the U.S. in land area, 834 sq. miles. How many of you HERALD-WHIG readers are going on the “Quincy Preserves Christmas Candlelight Tour” next Sunday? What do you CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM students know of Marjorie H. Buell, the creator of the comic strip character “Little Lulu”? Ms. Buell died in Elyria on May 30, 1993. Starting on December 8th, look at your newspaper daily for the time of sunrise and sunset to calculate the hours of daylight leading down to the winter solstice on December 21st. SGS 48
Answer Key December 14, 2008 - Week #15 1- Missouri, Texas, Florida 2- NY Jets 3- Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns
5. Missouri River 6- “Superman” AKA Clark Kent was a reporter in “Metropolis.” Superman is 60-years-old. Trivia for you: Metropolis is the only city in the United States so named. There is a Superman Celebration in Metropolis each June. Google Metropolis, Illinois for lots of information. 7. Seven(7) games. Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, NYC, St. Louis, Philadelphia SGS Clip newspaper articles related to population and employment movement away from the Rust Belt and toward the Sun Belt. * This is a perfect follow-up to last week’s lesson on the population shifting to the Southwest. However, be aware of this trend in cities. Young professionals, retired elderly, empty nesters and baby boomers are moving back into the cities. They don’t need the traditional familial setting with a big yard. Traffic congestion and high gasoline prices have people seeking housing closer to jobs and public transportation. 8. Cape Girardeau, MO. ** Many people say this is the only inland city in the United States with the word “Cape” as part of its name. 9. No, you would not want to walk the road as you would be afraid of snakes. 10. Minneapolis(MN) Vikings. Arkansas River SGS 11. World's highest suspension bridge soars 1,053 ft. above the Arkansas River. 12. Denver Broncos 13. Tennessee River 14. West. Washington & Cincinnati are near the 39th parallel. SGS 15. Kansas City is on the 39th, too. 16- San Francisco 49ers 17- Green Bay Packers 18- I – 55 19. Jackson, MS; Springfield, IL 20. Blues Highway runs through Mississippi on highway 61. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Traveling the Blues Highway”, April 1999, pages 42-69
In November of 2007, markers were placed to note the Mississippi Blues Trail. Google for the Blues Trail.
22. Atlanta Falcons as the cotton gin was invented in Savannah, GA. 23. The land area of Jacksonville covers 834 square miles.
Boston(N.E.) Patriots over Albany, NY & Salt Lake City, UT Green Bay Packers over Frankfort, KY
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Answer Key December 14, 2008 - Week #15 * Assign a couple of students to be demographers and clip and collect any articles related to trends in population shifts in the U.S. from now to May 31. Your population table shows seven of the top 10 cities in the U.S. are in the Sun Belt. New census estimates for the nation came out in June of 2008. www.census.gov SGS Look at THE WORLD ALMANAC 2008, page 589, and see the 10 largest counties in the U.S. You can see that seven of them are in the Sun Belt, and the large ones in the Rust Belt have little growth or negative growth. ** Count it as a correct answer if they have pinpointed the river close to Cape Girardeau, MO. You are within 20 miles of Wolf Lake, IL, in the Shawnee National Forest, where a 3-mile stretch of gravel road is closed for six weeks in each the spring and fall to allow snakes, turtles, frogs, skinks, salamanders and lizards to migrate from the bluffs to the swamp. www.fs.fed.us/r9/shawnee/ www.pingleton.com/field/field.htm The road lies between a murky swamp(the summer home) and a towering bluff(the winter dens of hibernation). This is the only place in the world where a road is closed to allow migration of at least 59 species of reptiles and amphibians. Teachers: Expand this into a discussion of migration of butterflies, ducks, geese, birds, whales, whooping cranes, sandhill cranes or anything else of interest to the students. Even when the road is not closed, reptiles constantly cross the road seeking the warmth of the swamp or the coolness of the dens deep in the bluffs. Last June, a national magazine asked: How will the Dallas Cowboys fare next season? What are your predictions? Can you make a circle graph of these poll results? Check in January to see who is correct. Super Bowl winners 35% Super Bowl losers 8% Bounced from playoffs 47% Won’t make playoffs 10%
Buffalo Bill Cody’s grave in Golden, CO Concrete ears of corn in Dublin, OH, near Columbus. Names of world cities within Ohio. Can you do it for your state? Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN Leadville, CO, is a unique city Questions and information about the Great Lakes Calculating mileage between cities, working with fractions Great Plains and Great Basin. Learn about economic conditions on the Great Plains at: www.ngplains.org The plains are 15% of the USA land area, but 3% of the population. Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee Imperial Valley of California Biosphere 2 in Oracle, AZ Winter solstice
December 21, 2008 - Week #16 1- Boston 2- San Francisco 49ers and the Phoenix(AZ) Cardinals 3- Philadelphia Eagles and the Charlotte(CAR) Panthers 4. United States Naval Academy. Do you think the navy guys eat navel oranges? 5- Baltimore Ravens near Little Rock, AR Miami Dolphins near Tallahassee, FL & Montgomery, AL Buffalo Bills over Lansing, MI New Orleans Saints over Nashville, TN 6. Golden, CO, and having the constant aroma of yeast from Coors’ Brewery. 7- Cleveland, and the Bengals could get there on I – 71. You are challenged to create a world tour within your state like Ohio. * SGS
9. Mayo Clinic or Mayo Brothers Clinic 10. Chicago is near the line of 88 degrees W. longitude, and so is Green Bay. SGS
_1_ Rio Grande, _6_ Susquehanna 12. Leadville is near the source of the Arkansas River. St. Louis is near the mouth of the Missouri River. 13. May be other answers related to mining, but at 10,152 ft., Leadville is the highest incorporated city in the United States. 14- Lake Erie , then Lake Huron , south end of Saginaw Bay. Then across Lake Michigan and Green Bay before zooming on to Seattle located on Elliott Bay. 15- Lake Michigan does not share a common border with Canada. ** 16- Cascade Mountain Range 17. A . Flathead Lake _C_ 27 degrees N. lat & 81 degrees W. long SGS B. Lake Michigan _B_ 42 degrees N. lat & 87 degrees W. long C. Lake Okeechobee _D_ 30 degrees N. lat & 90 degrees W. long D. Lake Pontchartrain _A_ 48 degrees N. lat & 114 degrees W. long E. Lake Tahoe _E_ 39 degrees N. lat & 120 degrees W. long
19. 473 miles + or – 20. Great Basin, Great Plains A basin because there is no exterior drainage. That’s why the Great Salt Lake is so salty. www.nps.gov/grba SGS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “The Emptied Prairie”, Jan. 2008, pgs 140-157. How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen. . . . . . . . .Grand Forks & Fargo? 21. Oak Ridge National Laboratory was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. All chemistry, physics and other science teachers will want to find out about all the kinds of research going on at Oak Ridge now. 22. Imperial Valley and Salton Sea. Much of the iceberg lettuce you will eat this winter comes from the Imperial Valley and the Gila River around Yuma, AZ. Carrots, too. **** SGS continued 51
December 21, 2008 - Week #16 23. Oracle, AZ This site has the potential for many science lessons. 24. TBD. Do the students understand the equinox, solstice and the changing season? Do students really understand the rotation and revolution of the Earth? Use that Cram globe you probably have in your classroom. Do you OMAHA WORLD-HERALD readers know about Carhenge in Alliance, NE? www.carhenge.com * You can make a world tour within Ohio by visiting Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Berlin, Calcutta, Cambridge, Dover, Dresden, Dublin, Elba, Essex, Ghent, Geneva, Glandorf, Greenwich, Macedonia, Malta, Mesopotamia, Paris, Parma, Rome, Sparta, Stratford, Syracuse, Toledo, Toronto, Troy, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Waterloo, Yorkshire. If you don’t like finding all these cities, then just forget about it and go to Utopia. Sue Ann Taylor, any new ones? ** H-O-M-E-S is an acronym to remember the names of the Great Lakes. Four lakes have a common border with Canada. Lake Michigan does not. SGS Lake Superior, 1,333 ft. deep, is the largest body of fresh water in the world. Lake Michigan, 923 ft. deep, is the only one wholly within the U.S. Lake Ontario, 802 ft. deep, is the smallest. Lake Huron, 750 ft. deep. Lake Erie, 210 ft. deep, has its waters plunge 193 ft. over Niagara Falls to feed Lake Ontario. Ships get around Niagara Falls by going through the 27 mile Welland Canal. Lake Erie is 326 ft. higher than Lake Ontario, so eight locks take ships from one lake to the other. Is this trivia or facts you need? Lake Huron is the second-largest in area, but Lake Michigan is second in volume. www.cruisingthegreatlakes.org 
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