States
Vocab 1
Warm Ups
Early Civilizations
Characteristics of N. America
100

What is the second largest state in the US?

What is Texas

100

What is a causeway?

What is a raised road made of packed earth, that connected the capital to the mainland

100

What is a compass rose?

What is a device that provides direction on a map

100

What was the first civilization in N. America?

What is the Olmec

100

What houses did the peoples of the subarctic and arctic cultures?

What are pit houses

200

What is the smallest state in the US

What is Rhode Island

200

What is a quipu?

What is a cord of string with knots that stood for numbers or categories?

200

What is a legend?

What is an illustration on a map that works as a key

200

What civilization used causeways to connect their capital to the rest of the empire?

What is the Aztecs

200

What kind of dinner would Native Americans of the Northwest have to make them look better in the eyes of others?

What is a Potlach

300

What 4 states border Kansas?

What are OK, MO, CO, and NE

300

What is a culture region?

What is a region in which people share a similar way of life

300

What 4 states border Texas?

What are AR, OK, NM, and LA

300

What are the 5 features of a civilization? (name 3)

What are social classes, cities, organized government, record keeping, complex religion

300

How did people of the great plains hunt buffalo before European Involvement?

What is on foot?

400

What State is surrounded by Maryland?

What is Delaware

400
What are kachinas and what did the pueblos believe they would bring?

What are spirits represented by masked native American dancers; what are the power to bring good harvests

400

Name two advantages of people living in the mountains

What are Natural protection, rivers, cooler weather, large selection of food, can build permanent settlements.

400

Give two similarities and differences of the Mayan and Aztec

What are calendars and empires (similarities) calendars for religion/ farming and living in different eras (differences)

400

What physical features were parts of the California, Great Basin, and Plateau regions? (name at least 2)

What are mountains, coastal lowlands, interior valleys and deserts.

500

Which state split to become two states during the Civil War? (Name both states)

What are Virginia and West Virginia

500

What are the five nations of the Iroquois?

What are the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, and Cayuga

500

Name two ways someone living in the desert got their food?

What are trading, travelling, and hunting.

500

How did ideas from ancient Mexico reach early Native American peoples far north? 

What are Traders and people migrating

500

What are the three sisters of crops that the Iroquois planted? and who did all the farming?

What are corn, squash, and beans; and what are the Iroquois women

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