Features of Civilization
Geography
Maya/ Aztec
Inca
Native American
100
The number of features of a civilization.
What is 8?
100
North, South, East, West
What are the cardinal directions?
100
An object people made such as tools, pottery, and jewelry.
What is an artifact?
100
The natural feature in which the Inca people lived.
What are the Andes Mountains?
100
The houses in the Arctic region were called...
What are igloos?
200
The feature of civilization that built water systems and roads.
What is public works?
200
The hemisphere in which we are located.
What is the north western hemisphere?
200
Finish this sentence. The Maya and the Aztecs both practiced _______
What is sacrifice?
200
A record keeping device made of many knots and used to send messages.
What is the quipu?
200
The Native American who were nomadic lived in...
What are tepees?
300
The feature of civilization that ranks people by money and wealth.
What is social classes?
300
The distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
300
Rainwater dug from pits were stored in tanks called...
What are cisterns?
300
The Incas created these in order to farm along the mountain range.
What are terraces?
300
What Native American culture used whale and seal oil to heat their homes?
What is the Arctic Culture?
400
The act of concentrating on a limited number of goods.
What is specialization?
400
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
The method in which trees and other plants on a plot of land are cut down and burned.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
400
The Inca rulers were called...
What are Sapa Incas?
400
The three ingredients of the "Three Sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
500
What is a locator map?
500
A river or stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
500
The Mayans four most remarkable achievements.
What were trade routes, architecture, mathematics, and the calendar?
500
The center of Inca government.
What was Cuzco?
500
The Native American Culture that build connected stone homes in the southwest.
What is the Ancestral Pueblo?