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 inbuildings even taller than that!

2. DelawareMarylandNew JerseyNew YorkPennsylvania 3. TheMid-Atlantic region is the most thicklysettled region in the nation New Yorks location to the Hudson River ledto its growth. European settlers used the river and NewYorks harbor to move goods from inlandNorth America to Europe. Shipping led to the growth of trade. 4. Started on an island called Manhattan As the city grew, four new neighborhoodsformed 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 thesuburbs in the 1800s. They wanted to find less crowded places tolive 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