Question: What mountains does that region include?
Answer: Catskill Mountains

Question: What is the plateau known as in West Virginia?
Answer: Cumberland Plateau

Question: What does the Great Appalachian Valley do?
Answer: divides the mountain system into two unequal portions

Question: What is common among all the mountains in the range?
Answer: has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights

Question: What is the climate like on the summits?
Answer: None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow.

Question: How tall are the mountains in Newfoundland?
Answer: 3,000 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in Nova Scotia?
Answer: vary from 1,000 to 2,700 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in Maine?
Answer: exceed 4,000 ft

Question: How tall are the mountains in New Hampshire?
Answer: many summits rise above 5,000 ft

Question: How many summits in PA are over 2,500 ft? 
Answer: over sixty summits

Question: How tall are the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob?
Answer: over 3,000 ft

Question: How tall are Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain?
Answer: 3,162 ft (964 m) and 2,882 ft

Question: How tall is the Pinnacle?
Answer: 3,007 feet

Question: How many peaks are over 4,000 feet in WV?
Answer: more than 150 peaks

Question: Where do the Blue Ridge Mountains begin?
Answer: southern Pennsylvania

Question: What are the typical elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Answer: 2,000 ft

Question: How tall is Quirauk Mountain?
Answer: 2,145 ft

Question: How tall are the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia?
Answer: 2,000 ft

Question: What is the tallest Appalachian mountain in Virginia?
Answer: Mount Rogers

Question: Where did the mountains lay before the French and Indian War?
Answer: on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin

Question: What happened after the French and Indian War?
Answer: the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies in North America to east of the summit line of the mountains

Question: What was the general opinion of the law?
Answer: it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians

Question: What did the law likely lead to?
Answer: the American Revolutionary War

Question: What did the backcountry settlers want to secure?
Answer: their settlement of Kentucky

Question: Where did a lot of Germans settle? 
Answer: between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers

Question: What dialect was created because of this?
Answer: Pennsylvania German language

Question: Where did these Germans eventually occupy?
Answer: all of the Shenandoah Valley

Question: What is one typical bird found in the range?
Answer: wild turkey

Question: How many species of tree squirrel are commonly found in the range?
Answer: five species

Question: What is the most commonly seen species?
Answer: gray squirrel

Question: What does the squirrel share its habitat with?
Answer: larger fox squirrel

Question: What is found more in the northern portions?
Answer: red squirrel

Question: Which species is commonly found more in spruce-fir forests?
Answer: Appalachian northern flying squirrel

Question: What trees are typically found in the dryer portions?
Answer: oak

Question: What species of tree was pretty much eliminated?
Answer: The American chestnut

Question: What does the tree live on?
Answer: sapling-sized sprouts

Question: What trees replaced chestnut trees?
Answer: oaks

Question: What kind of oaks are in the central and southern portions?
Answer: black, northern red, white, chestnut and scarlet oaks

Question: What other tree is common there?
Answer: hickories

Question: What trees are located in drier portions?
Answer: chestnut oak

Question: What is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms?
Answer: energy

Question: In SI units, energy is measured in what measurement?
Answer: joules

Question: Mechanically, one joule is defined as what?
Answer: the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton

Question: Common energy forms include what?
Answer: kinetic energy of a moving object

Question: In Newtonian physics, there is a universal law that says energy can be neither created nor what?
Answer: destroyed

Question: What law states, in part, that energy can change from one form to another?
Answer: Newtonian physics

Question: How can the total energy of a system be calculated?
Answer: by adding up all forms of energy in the system

Question: The limit to the amount of heat energy that can do work in a cyclic process is known as what?
Answer: available energy

Question: What can be fully converted into work in a reversible isothermal expansion of an ideal gas?
Answer: heat

Question: What states that the system doing work always loses some energy as waste heat?
Answer: second law of thermodynamics

Question: Give one example of energy transformation.
Answer: generating electric energy from heat energy via a steam turbine

Question: What transforms nuclear potential energy to other forms of energy?
Answer: Sun

Question: What is another example of energy transformation?
Answer: lifting an object against gravity using electrical energy driving a crane motor

Question: What is determined by an object's movement through space?
Answer: kinetic energy

Question: What usually consists partly of kinetic and partly of potential energy?
Answer: thermal energy

Question: What is a function of the position of an object within a field?
Answer: potential energy

Question: What is dependent upon electrical potential energy?
Answer: Elastic energy in materials

Question: Where is chemical energy stored and released?
Answer: from a reservoir of electrical potential energy between electrons

Question: Some types of energy are a varying mix of potential and what other kind of energy?
Answer: kinetic

Question: What is a term for living force?
Answer: vis viva

Question: What is defined as the product of mass of an object and its velocity squared?
Answer: vis viva

Question: Who proposed the idea of the Latin: vis viva?
Answer: Gottfried Leibniz

Question: In what century did Leibniz propose the idea of Latin: vis viva?
Answer: late 17th century

Question: Who shared Leibniz's view that thermal energy consisted of random motion of the constituent parts of matter?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: Who was possibly the first to use the term "energy" instead of vis viva?
Answer: Thomas Young

Question: When did Thomas Young use the term "energy" instead of vis viva?
Answer: 1807

Question: Who coined the term "potential energy?"
Answer: William Rankine

Question: Who discovered the link between mechanical work and the generation of heat?
Answer: James Prescott Joule

Question: When was the law of conservation of energy first postulated?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Who largely formalized the developments that led to the theory of conservation of energy?
Answer: William Thomson

Question: What aided the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes by Clausius, Gibbs and Nernst?
Answer: Thermodynamics

Question: Who developed the concept of the introduction of laws of radiant energy?
Answer: Jožef Stefan

Question: What states that the conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that the laws of physics do not change over time?
Answer: Noether's theorem

Question: What is another energy-related concept?
Answer: Lagrangian

Question: Who is the Lagrangian named after?
Answer: Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Question: What is defined as the kinetic energy minus the potential energy?
Answer: Lagrangian

Question: Is the Lagrange formalism or the Hamiltonian more convenient for non-conservative systems?
Answer: Lagrange formalism

Question: When was Noether's theorem created?
Answer: 1918