Geography
The meaning of 'geo.'
What is Earth?
What is an example of an adaptation that Native Americans used?
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Explorers came to America from this continent.
What is Europe?
This water feature is a bridge between 2 larger bodies of water.
Weather measured over a long period of time?
What is climate?
A sphere shaped representation of Earth.
What is a globe?
Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, and minerals.
What is a natural resource?
Three motivations for coming to the Americas.
Gold, Glory, God, Greed
A flat top hill with steep sides.
What is a plateau?
The difference between longitude and latitude.
What is latitude runs East to West and longitude runs from North to South.
These are the 4 cardinal directions.
What is North, South, East, and West?
A very valuable animal who Native Americans considered sacred
What is a bison?
Reasons explorers traveled to find Asia.
What are spices and silks?
This landform is a land bridge between two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
Historians study these man-made products to better understand the past. Examples include jewelry, diaries, and tools.
What are artifacts?
Lines that circle Earth from east to west
What are Lines of Longitude?
The name for the Native Americans who lived in the Arctic.
The Inuits.
Name 2 of the 3 navigation tools the explorers used on their ships to help find their way across the ocean.
Map
Compass
Astrolabe
Florida is considered this type of landform.
A crop that is grown in large quantities for sale.
What is a cash crop?
The 4 intermediate directions.
NW, SW, NE, SE
A location where Native Americans would tell stories or have religious ceremonies.
What is a kiva?
Sponsor of Christopher Columbus.
What is Spain?
This water feature resembles a chicken's foot.
What is a delta?
Another Hispanic sounding name for the explorers we learned about who conquered land in the Americas.
What is a conquistador.