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1. What are the four subregions of the United States?

2. What are the two regions of the Northeast and what states make up each region? What percent of the nation’s land area is the Northeast, and what percentage of the U.S. population lives in the Northeast?

3. Why are parts of the Middle Atlantic states referred to as the “rust belt”?

4. Define megalopolis and tell where the United States’ first megalopolis developed. What is the name of this first megalopolis?

5. Name the 12 states that make up the Midwest subregion. How much of the nation’s land does it occupy and what percentage of the nation’s population live there?

6. What is the Midwest’s nickname and why has the Midwest earned this nickname?

7. What major cities in the Midwest developed along rivers, and what cities developed near rivers?

8. Name the 16 states which make up the South subregion. Along with the Southwest, what is the nickname of this subregion and why is it given this nickname?

9. What is the financial, trade, and transportation center of The New South, and what are the six rapidly growing metropolitan areas of the new south?

10. Name the 13 states of the West subregion. Which state is the nation’s most populous state and why is it so heavily populated?

1. The four subregions of the United States are the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, and the West.

2. New England is made up of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.The Middle Atlantic States are Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.The area is about 5% of the nation and the population is about 20% of the nation.

3. The “rust belt” is known because of its declining and abandoned traditional industries. Most of these industries moved to the “sunbelt” in the South and West.

4. A megalopolis is a region which has several large cities and surrounding areas which have grown together. The first megalopolis developed in the Northeast and is called “BosWash.”

5. The twelve states of the Midwest are Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.The Midwest takes up 20% of the nation’s area and contains almost 25% of the nation’s population.

6. The Midwest’s nickname is the nation’s “breadbasket.” It has earned this nickname because fertile soil, adequate rainfall, and a favorable climate make it possible for Midwesterners to produce more food and feed more people than farmers in any comparable area in the world.

7. Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee developed near the Great Lakes.Cincinnati, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, and Omaha developed along rivers.

8. The 16 states of the South are Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.The nickname for this area is the “sunbelt” because of the area’s climate.

9. The financial, trade, and transportation center of The New South is Atlanta, Georgia.The six metropolitan areas are Miami, Tampa-St. Petersburg, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and San Antonio.

10. The West’s 13 states are Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.The most populous state in the U.S. is California because the state has excellent farmland, good harbors, and a mild climate.