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PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 4, 2007 - Week #9 Missouri Compromise to settle an issue of free and slave states, and the term is generically used to mean a line between the North and the South. ** There are about 46,726 miles of interstate highway in the United States. They are America's circulatory system, the modern Main Street. How do you remember how mile-markers count on Interstate highways? The sun comes UP in the east and goes DOWN in the west. Markers count mileage UP as you travel east, and DOWN as you travel west. On a map, north is always UP and south is always DOWN. Mile-markers count UP as you travel north, & DOWN as you go south. *** About 85,000 tourists a year come to Crater of Diamonds State Park to scrounge for the stones, and 2006 was the 100th anniversary of the finding of the first diamond there. About 20% of the diamonds are of gem quality. What design do you see on the Arkansas state flag? What do you see on the back of the Arkansas quarter? It is the world's only public site where anybody can lay down $4.50 and sift the soil for diamonds. During the peak summer season, an average of seven diamonds are found at the park every day. Other semi-precious gemstones also can be found among them amethyst, opal, quartz and jasper. www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com See: “ZipUSA: Murfreesboro, AR, U-Dig Diamonds”, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, March 2002, Page 118 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Diamonds: The Real Story”, March 2002, Pages 2-35. How diamonds are mined in Africa and eventually get to your jewelry shop through a secretive network. These precious gems carry a huge cost in human suffering. 
Saturday, November 3rd is Sadie Hawkins Day. Tell the boys in your class to go hide. NEXT WEEK: Rivers running from Denver to Kansas City French heritage of St. Louis and New Orleans Carpet (Georgia) & furniture (North Carolina) Kudzu vines Pony Express originated in St. Joseph, MO, and why they put holes in doughnuts. Do you believe it? Ft. Sumter in South Carolina Cruising from San Francisco to Seattle Redwood Empire in northwestern California Crater Lake and the caldera within Honoring Veterans’ Day---Honoring WWII www.ddaymuseum.org www.dday.org www.wwIImemorial.com Becoming a little bit of a vexillologist 37
Answer Key November 11, 2007 - Week #10 1- Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Green Bay Will some students say Kansas City? Well, Arrowhead Stadium is in Missouri, but give them credit for good thinking. The Vikings are going over Eau Claire. Any other Paul Bunyan stories? Any TRIBUNE-REVIEW students going to the game? You VINDICATOR readers, watch the Browns go over.
3. Clear mountain streams flow into the South Platte River in Denver. This river becomes the Platte River at N. Platte, NE. This river flows into the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, NE, (Get It? Platt’s mouth) and onto Kansas City where THE STAR readers will be there to see if the water is still Eau Claire. SGS
heritage of your city or town. SGS 5- California 6. Atlanta Falcons vs. Charlotte(CAR) Panthers A study reported in May of 2005 that the use of kudzu pills may curb binge drinking. Glad they found kudzu useful for something. This is an invasive species from Japan that was brought here with good intentions that went wrong. 7. Foot of the mountain 8- I-85 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “North Carolina’s Piedmont: On a Fast Break”, March 1995, pages 114-138.
10. Pony Express www.xphomestation.com www.nps.gov/poex Have some student(s) plot the route of the Pony Express from the websites given. *
Most of the carpet in the U.S. is made in a 50 mile radius of Dalton, GA. Mother probably knows that North Carolina is the leading furniture manufacturing state in the nation. SGS 12- Buffalo Bills 13. Civil War began Margaret Mitchell’s birthday is November 8th. She wrote Gone with the Wind, the most famous romantic novel about the Civil War and reconstruction.
Strait of Juan de Fuca, across Puget Sound, and into Elliott Bay. SGS 15. Redwood Empire Redwood trees can grow 350 ft. tall and be 2,000 years old. SGS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER, “Into the Garden of the Giants”, July 2005, page 42. 16. At 1,932 ft., it is the deepest lake in the United States. Wizard Island in Crater Lake is an extinct volcano, too. SGS 17. Caldera. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER, “Oregon’s Crater Lake”, Jan/Feb ’05 pages 53-56.
trying to learn about the history of our flag. Something you might learn. Myth has it that Betsy Ross sewed our first flag, but she didn’t. Francis Hopkinson probably designed the first flag. “God Bless American” was written especially for Kate Smith. She first sang it on Nov. 11, 1938. continued 38 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 11, 2007 - Week #10 19- I-70 through Topeka, KS 20- I-55 through Jackson, MS 21- 5:00 22- 11:00 23- Eight (8) 24- IN IL, MO, KS, CO, NM, AZ, CA Are any of you ANN ARBOR NEWS readers going to the Winter Art Fair on Saturday?
It is ironic that the Boston fire came one year, one month and one day after the Great Chicago Fire of November 8, 1871.
Ms. Goold thinks it’s true. NEXT WEEK: Children’s Book Week, November 12-18. Try to encourage everyone to read a book or two next week. www.cbcbooks.org Transcontinental flight Interstate highways Monument Circle in Indianapolis to honor Veterans’ Day Robert Fulton sailing the Clermont on the Hudson. Good American history. Finger Lakes of western New York Presidents on Mt. Rushmore Free ice water at Wall Drug in Wall, SD Butterfield Stagecoach Line Chesapeake Bay is largest estuary More on peninsulas Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana Great Salt Lake in Utah Population center of the United States Copper mines in eastern Arizona Try to obtain more information as to what is causing the whirling disease in fish in Maryland, Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. To get Christmas cards and letters postmarked from North Pole, Alaska, put addressed & stamped envelop(s) in a larger envelop or box and send to: North Pole Christmas Cancellation, Postmaster 5400 Mail Trail Fairbanks, Alaska 99709-9999
November 18, 2007 - Week #11 1- New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2- San Diego Chargers 3- The Bears on I- 90. The Buccaneers on I- 75. The Chiefs on I- 70. The Saints on I- 10. The Patriots on I- 90 4. Free ice water NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Good Things in the Badlands--Reefs in a Prairie Sea”, April 2004, pages 78-97. 5. G. Washington, A. Lincoln, T. Jefferson, T. Roosevelt. The presidents were given SGS 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 6. Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. However, it was a political cartoonist who captured the moment and made the Teddy Bear popular. President Roosevelt could not kill a bear cub when he was hunting in Mississippi. Clifford Berryman, a political cartoonist, witnessed the incident and drew the president along side the cub, and this was the beginning of the craze. 7. Indianapolis, IN. Monument Circle is why Indianapolis is called “Circle City”. 8. Hudson River. Clermont 9. Boston(N.E.) Patriots Glaciers made the Finger Lakes. * www.visitfingerlakes.com and www.fingerlakes.org SGS
Festival was held last June. The group is lobbying to have Andy put into the National Toy Hall of Fame. They say it’s not fair to have just Ann there. Students might write to nominate and lobby. www.museumofplay.org is toy museum in Rochester, NY. 585-263-2700 is telephone number.
Rogers, AR, recounts that Rogers was a changing station for the teams of horses on the Butterfield Stagecoach route. 12- Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay. 13. Where a river flows into a bay to mix with ocean water. ** SGS See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine “Why can’t we save Chesapeake Bay?”, June 2005, pages 22-49. 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. H.L. Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore, called the Chesapeake an “immense protein factory.” See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Our Coasts in Crisis”, July 2006, pages 60-87. This article is about the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts, and estuarine poor conditions.
15- Green Bay Packers 16- Detroit Lions 17. Atchafalaya Basin/Swamp *** THE ADVOCATE students don’t have to answer this. Hello, Ms. Lowe. 18. Great Salt Lake 19. 45 degrees N. latitude Students should understand the concept that at 45 degrees N. latitude, continued 40 PIGSKIN GEOGRAPHY® Answer Key November 18, 2007 - Week #11 Minneapolis is exactly half way between the Equator & North Pole, and on August 1st, some in Minneapolis were exactly half way between the highway and the river. 20. Nashville(TN) Titans Have a student(s) plot the shifts in the center of population on a map from 1790 to 2000 by consulting THE WORLD ALMANAC-2007, page 595. 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. 21. CA, AZ, NM, TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL 22. Copper. Students might like to see about riding in one of the HUGE trucks. How big are they? www.phelpsdodge.com/Community-Environment/MorenciMineTour.htm. Click on the education link to learn about Copper in the Classroom. The Mickey Mouse graphic was used because it was November 18, 1928, when Mickey made his first screen appearance at the Colony Theater in NYC in Disney’s film “Steamboat Willie”. * The area is made up of 11 finger-shaped lakes of different sizes, running lengthwise in a north-south direction. The region is within a “box” of a line drawn from Rochester to Syracuse to Binghamton to Corning to Rochester. ** An estuary is an extension of a river that flows into a bay where fresh water from the river and salt water from the ocean mix. There are no problems until the flow of the river is slowed or polluted. So much of the natural flow from Lake Okeechobee in Florida has been diverted that salt water comes too far up into streams and kills the native vegetation. Measures to save Chesapeake Bay are being successful. Estuaries along the Louisiana coast are in trouble. Satellite photos show Hurricanes Katrina and Rita turned 100 square miles of Louisiana coastline into open water. *** 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. NEXT WEEK: Better Conversation Week, November 19-25. Develop meaningful conversation with family, friends & across generations. www.conversation-matters.com
Fall Line cities Mt. Whitney and Death Valley Sonoran and Mojave deserts Helium producing region of the United States. Learn about the helium monument and history in Amarillo at: www.dhdc.org/helium.html Great Plains and Great Basin Cardinal direction and longitude Identifying rivers America’s most historic cities
November 25, 2007 - Week #12 1- Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers. Good to reinforce the concept of the Upper Peninsula. 2- Atlanta 3. North out of Green Bay, across the northern end of Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac, south on Lake Huron, down the St. Clair River, across Lake St. Clair, south on the Detroit River to “Motor City” or is it “Motown”? SGS Teacher: Point out that the Packers are actually going through three straits. The St. Clair River and the Detroit River are straits. SGS 4. Yes, it is a strait. Antoine de la Cadillac founded d'etroit, literally "the straits". It is said, “Cadillac gave us Detroit, and Detroit gave us the Cadillac.” 5- Richmond, VA; Raleigh, NC
Liberty High School 1115 Linden Street Bethlehem, PA 18018 www.illicksmill.org Students in Newark, Harrisburg and Hanover should check out their website and see if you can provide some moral or financial support. You’ll feel better this Thanksgiving week. EVENING SUN students could send pretzels to snack on while they work on the mill. 7. Teacher, you may hear that Death Valley is: A. 282 feet below sea level, lowest point in Western Hemisphere. B. Highest temperature ever recorded in United States of 134 degrees on July 10, 1913. Temperatures of 125 degrees are common. C. Borax discovered here in 1873. Are students aware of the 20-mule teams? D. Death Valley is a national monument. See: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER-issue of Sept./Oct. 1998. Mt. Whitney, at 14,494 feet above sea level, and Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level, are the highest and lowest points in the 48 states; and they are only about 80 miles apart. Mt. McKinley in Alaska is the highest point in the U.S. at 20,320 ft. If you care--Death Valley is a rift valley formed by a geological feature called a graben. A graben continued 42
Answer Key November 25, 2007 - Week #12 is a down-dropped block of the earth crust which forms when pressure is released on the faults on either side of the block. 8. Sonoran Desert of Arizona and the Mojave Desert of California. SGS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine of September 1994 is about the Sonoran Desert. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine of May 1996 is about the Mojave Desert.
Lake is so salty. www.nps.gov/grba SGS 11. North. 80 degrees W. longitude 12- _4_ Arkansas, _5_ Colorado, _2_ Mississippi, _3_ Missouri, _1_ Ohio. Hope your map shows the Ravens barely touch the Missouri. WICHITA EAGLE students should watch them go over. 13. Philadelphia and Boston. You might like to assign the research exercise on page 44. Hope you will consider making it a fun, family activity. SGS * Tell your students to "keep their noses to the grind stone." Falling water was a source of power for turning millstones to grind corn and wheat. If the stones became too close the friction would burn the grain. Therefore, keeping your nose to the grind stone made it possible to smell if the finely ground grain was being scorched. The Fall Line cities are on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mts. in the Piedmont or hilly section. The Fall Line marks the dividing line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Piedmont means "foot of the mountain."
Newspaper records show a mill had stood at this site since 1760, and this latest mill was believed to date to 1852. Hope you OMAHA WORLD-HERALD students are going to Christmas at Union Station. Hope you KANSAS CITY STAR students are going to the Mayor’s Christmas Tree Lighting. The 100-foot tree in Crown Center Square Is supposed to be the tallest in the nation.
Mouth or delta of the Mississippi River - Mormons in Nauvoo, IL Wheat growing states. (winter wheat and spring wheat) Rain shadow of mountains. A good science lesson. Gold in California, Colorado & North Carolina. Good American history The 59ers going to the land of the 49ers Mark Twain and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, MN 43 Philadelphia and Boston Boston--the birthplace of the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia--the birthplace of the United States. Write “B” or “P” on the line of the term, name, item you associate with each city. ___ Alcott, Louisa May born here ___ Beacon Hill ___ “Beantown” ___ Bunker Hill ___ Chamberlain, Wilt “The Stilt” ___ Charles River ___ Cheesesteak ___ “City of Brotherly Love” ___ “City with an Emerald Necklace” ___ Clam Chowder ___ Declaration of Independence ___ Faneuil Hall ___ Fenway Park ___ Franklin, Benjamin ___ Franklin, Benjamin born here ___ Frazer, Joe ___ Freedom Trail ___ Gen. Washington crossing the Delaware ___ Harvard University ___ “Hub of the Universe” ___ Independence Hall ___ Liberty Bell ___ Logan Airport ___ Marciano, Rocky ___ Mummer’s Parade ___ “Old Ironsides” USS Constitution ___ Old North Church ___ Revere, Paul ___ Ross, Betsy ___ Ruth, Babe ___ Schuylkill River ___ “Shot heard around the World” fired here ___ Tea Party ___ Valley Forge ___ Williams, Ted 44
Answer Key _B_ Alcott, Louisa May born here _B_ Beacon Hill _B_ “Beantown” _B_ Bunker Hill _P_ Chamberlain, Wilt “The Stilt” _B_ Charles River _P_ Cheesesteak _P_ “City of Brotherly Love” _B_ “City with an Emerald Necklace” _B_ Clam Chowder _P_ Declaration of Independence _B_ Faneuil Hall _B_ Fenway Park _P_ Franklin, Benjamin _B_ Franklin, Benjamin born here _P_ Frazer, Joe _B_ Freedom Trail _P_ Gen. Washington crossing the Delaware _B_ Harvard University _B_ “Hub of the Universe” _P_ Independence Hall _P_ Liberty Bell _B_ Logan Airport _B_ Marciano, Rocky _P_ Mummer’s Parade _B_ “Old Ironsides” USS Constitution _B_ Old North Church _B_ Revere, Paul _P_ Ross, Betsy _B_ Ruth, Babe _P_ Schuylkill River _B_ “Shot heard around the World” fired here _B_ Tea Party _P_ Valley Forge _B_ Williams, Ted You might share this activity with the American history teacher. A new Bunker Hill Museum opened this past summer. Details of this gruesome battle at: www.nps.gov/bost/historyculture/bhm.htm
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Answer Key December 2, 2007 - Week #13 1- Minneapolis, St. Louis, New Orleans SGS 2- Eastern border(west side of the river). MN, IA, MO, AR, LA Western border(east side of the river). WI, IL, KY, TN, MS 3- Cincinnati Bengals 4- Pennsylvania, Missouri 5- Miami. Speaking of oceans, do you students in Boston, New Bedford, Providence and Long Beach know where the ocean murals are on buildings there? www.wylandfoundation.org
The Tennessee River was dammed to form Kentucky Lake. The Cumberland River was dammed to form Lake Barkley. Point out that at this point these rivers flow north, different than most rivers of the United States.
9. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Accept Mormon 10. Kansas is the leading wheat growing state in the nation. How will Kansas rank in 2007? SGS Winter wheat, as grown in KS, MO, IL, etc., is planted in the fall and harvested in the late spring or early summer. Planted seeds could not stand the severe ground freezing and winters of the north. www.kswheat.com Spring wheat is planted in northern states in the spring and harvested in late summer. Western Kansas is fine, but heavy flooding in May and June has wiped out much of the wheat crop in eastern Kansas. How have you fared in Wichita and Hutchinson? A good snow cover and a moist spring have been perfect for wheat in Colorado. A record harvest is expected. 11- It’s on a great bend in the Arkansas River. 12. “Tornado Alley” Make sure the students remember Enterprise, AL, and Greensburg, KS. * 13. As clouds rise and cool to get over the Cascades, they drop their moisture on the west side. The Great Plains are divided into the short grass prairie to the west and the wetter tall grass prairie to the east. Things are drier just east of a mountain because of the rain shadow. ** You students in Kansas know about the Tall Grass Prairie around Emporia. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “Tallgrass Prairie”, April 2007, pages 120- 141 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine, “The American Prairie--Roots of the Sky”, October 1993, pages 90-117. Great map of grasslands on page 100. www.nps.gov/tapr is tallgrass prairie. 14. San Francisco 49ers going to Charlotte. The name 49ers should make this answer obvious. *** Maybe conflicting stories, but the cry, “There’s gold in them thar hills.” was said in North Carolina to encourage the miners to stay and not run off to California. 15. Denver Broncos vs. Oakland Raiders **** www.museumca.org/goldrush Curriculum on this site. 16. Oakland, CA. Going to Oakland, the Broncos will fly right over Calaveras County. Wow!!!! 17. Minneapolis, St. Louis, New Orleans. Clemens & Twain, did the students make the connection? You HERALD-WHIG students in Quincy and Hannibal need not answer. continued 46
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