Indigenous Peoples of North America
Scientists think that the earliest people in the Americas migrated on foot from this area to the Americas
What is Siberia - in Asia
These two continents are completely below the equator.
What are Australia and Antarctica?
These two states are not part of the contiguous United States.
What are Alaska and Hawai'i?
This early colonizer is considered by many to be the first to reach the Americas, and he claimed land for Spain
Who was Christopher Columbus?
When John White returned to his colony, it had disappeared. The only thing left was the word CROATOAN carved on a doorpost. What happened to the colony still remains a mystery.
What is Roanoke?
These are shelters built by many Inuit tribes in the Arctic.
What are iglus? (also acceptable: tupiq)
Cartographers have divided up the Earth into a grid of imaginary lines that run both north and south and east and west.
What are latitude and longitude?
These four states border Mexico.
What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas?
This is what the Spanish soldiers who accompanied ship captains to take land were known as.
What are conquistadors?
Chief Powhatan's favorite daughter first helped the English colonizers in Jamestown survive, then was taken prisoner by the English, and finally married John Rolfe to help end the tensions between the Powhatan and the English.
Who was Pocahontas? (Amonute)
The Mesa people lived in apartment-looking houses called adobes. Their villages were called this.
What is a pueblo?
The two longest rivers in the world are in South America and in Africa
What are the Amazon River and the Nile River?
The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the United States, but this river is the longest.
What is the Missouri River?
Jacques Cartier claimed this area which he called New France. Today it is part of this country.
What is Canada?
English sailor Henry Hudson explored this river, claiming the land along its banks for the Netherlands. The area he claimed became known as New Netherlands.
What is the Hudson River?
In the fall, huge herds of this animal were hunted by the peoples of the Great Plains.
What are bison?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This state is the most populous state.
What is California?
This is the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange
The English drove the Dutch colonizers out of New Amsterdam and renamed the colony this.
What is New York?
This area in the Southwest Cultural region is larger than 10 of the 50 states
What is Navajoland?
This is the modern country that used to be Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
These bodies of water are called the Great Lakes.
What are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario?
The search for furs led two French explorers, Father Marquette and Louis Joliet to explore the entire length of this river and claim all land west of it for the French.
What is the Mississippi River?
these colonies planted cash crops and came to depend on the labor of enslaved people for economic success.
What are the Southern Colonies: Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina?