Around the World
X Marks the Spot
Ice Ice Baby
Survive and Thrive
On the Move
History Hats
100
The study of Earth and how people interact with it.
What is geography?
100
This map feature shows directions such as north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
100
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
100
A change in behavior or characteristics that helps people survive in their environment.
What is adaptation?
100
One major consequence of migration was that people spread across these regions.
What are North and South America?
100
If people are following animals, this is one possible cause of migration.
What is the search for resources/food?
200
This map feature explains what symbols and colors mean.
What is a key or legend?
200
This map feature tells you what the map is all about
What is the Map's Title?
200
During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped and exposed this land bridge area between Siberia and Alaska.
What is Beringia?
200
Name a way someone might use a Buffalo as a resource other than eating it's meat
Making clothing, blankets, shelter coverings, tools, or other useful items from its parts.
200
The Utes and Shoshone lived in Utah, where the soil was poor. This is one way they adapted by finding different ways to get food.
What is Hunting and moving from place to place to find food?
200
If the environment changes and a group moves to find better resources, geography is influencing this.
What is migration?
300
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian
300
A map shows that Sedalia is 100 miles from Kansas City. This map feature would help you understand what that distance represents in the real world.
What is the Scale?
300
Beringia connected parts of these two regions.
What are Siberia (Asia) and Alaska (North America)?
300
Why would people living in a cold environment need different adaptations than people living in a warm environment?
Because different environments provide different challenges and resources.
300
Why didn't all Indigenous peoples develop the exact same culture?
They lived in different environments with different resources and challenges.
300
A group develops special clothing because of a cold climate. Identify the cause and effect.
Cause: cold environment. Effect: people adapt their clothing.
400
This measures distance north or south of the Equator in degrees
What is latitude?
400
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
400
This major environmental event caused sea levels to fall and helped expose Beringia.
What is the Ice Age?
400
The Inuit adapted by using the water for transportation and housing. Name the boat they used and the structure they lived in.
Igloos and Kayaks
400
Name two things that could be different between cultures living in different environments.
Food, clothing, housing, tools, transportation, traditions, or ways of obtaining resources.
400
How could geography affect where people choose to settle?
People may settle where they can find food, water, shelter, fertile land, and other useful resources.
500
The number of timezones that are in the United States
What is six? Four in the continental USA and one each for Hawaii and Alaska
500
The imaginary line that separates "Today" and "Tomorrow" in the Pacific Ocean
What is the International Date Line?
500
Name two reasons early people migrated into the Americas.
Food, land, safety, resources, following animals, or changing environmental conditions.
500
A group moves from a cold region to a dry desert. Predict one way their lifestyle might change because of their new environment.
clothing, housing, food sources, water use, or movement patterns.
500
Explain how migration could eventually lead to cultural diversity.
As people spread into different regions, they encountered different environments and resources. Over time, groups adapted differently and developed distinct cultures.
500
Predict what might have happened if early people had entered the Americas by a different route. Give one possible effect on cultural development.
A different route could have caused groups to settle in different areas, encounter different environments, and develop different adaptations and cultures.