1. How tall is your school?
If it were 100 stories tall, it would hold
a lot of students!
In large cities, many people work in
buildings even taller than that!

2. Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania

3.  The Mid-Atlantic region is the most thickly
settled region in the nation
 New York’s location to the Hudson River led
to its growth.
 European settlers used the river and New
York’s harbor to move goods from inland
North America to Europe.
 Shipping led to the growth of trade.

4.  Started on an island called Manhattan
 As the city grew, four new neighborhoods
formed
 Queens
 Staten Island
 Bronx
 Brooklyn

5.  Today, skyscrapers fill Manhattan
 Skyscrapers: very tall buildings

6.  More than 8,000,000 people live there!
 From around the world.

7.  Subways
 Buses
 Taxis

8.  Millions visit each year
 Shop
 Museums
 Attend Plays

9.  People began to move from cities to the
suburbs in the 1800s.
 They wanted to find less crowded places to
live

10.  Drive cares to work, school, and malls

11.  Forestand farmland fill large areas
 More farms here than New England region
 Flowers
 Chickens
 Dairy Products
 Coal Mines in Pennsylvania

12.  Natural Environments
 Winter sports in the mountains
 Beaches
 Boating and Fishing