MAP SKILLS
What are the cardinal directions?
What is North, East, South, West?
Which explorer sailed for Spain in 1492?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Which region is known for very cold weather and igloos?
What is the Artic?
What was the main food source for many people of the Plains?
What is the Buffalo?
What natural resource helped people build homes in forest regions?
What is trees or wood?
What imaginary line circles Earth halfway between the poles?
What is the Equator?
Which explorer found the Mississippi River?
Who is Hernando de Soto?
Which region had many forests and plank houses?
What is the Northwest region?
What crops did Southwest farmers grow?
What is Corn, beans, and squash?
What natural resource helped people fish and travel?
What is rivers or waterways?
Which direction is halfway between north and east?
What is Northeast?
Which explorer found Newfoundland while looking for a route to Asia?
Who is John Cabot?
Which region used buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter?
What is the Plains region?
What were many Southwest homes called?
What is Pueblos?
What natural resource did Plains people use to make teepees?
What is Buffalo hides?
What do lines of latitude run across on a map: east to west or north to south?
What is East to West?
Which explorer discovered the Hudson River and Hudson Bay?
Who is Henry Hudson?
Which region used chickees as summer homes?
What is the Southeast region?
What animal’s fur and hides helped Arctic people make clothing?
What is Animals such as seals, bears, or caribou?
What resource did people use to make adobe homes?
What is clay?
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole?
What is the Prime Meridian?
Which explorer reached the Pacific Ocean and was the first European to see it?
Who is Vasco Nunez Balboa?
Which region grew corn, squash, pumpkins, and beans and built longhouses?
What is the Northeast?
What kind of home was built on stilts, about three feet above the ground?
What is Chickees?
What natural resource helped Southwest farmers water their crops?
What is Water or irrigation?