Basic Vocabulary
The written record of mankind.
What is History?
A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
The third largest continent.
What is North America?
Homes made of buffalo hides stretched around a frame of poles.
What are teepees?
The movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another.
What is migration?
The study of the earth’s surface.
What is geography?
The world’s largest bay.
What is Hudson Bay?
A narrow strip of land which connects two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
The most famous Indians/ Native Americans who lived in Mexico.
What are the Aztecs?
Ocean on the coast of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Unique way of life.
What is culture?
The narrow body of water that links the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific’s Bering Sea and separates Russia from Alaska.
Bering Strait
The seven continents in order of size.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?
A type of light axe made by Native Americans.
What is a tomahawk?
The ocean on the coast of North Carolina beaches.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Shooting with bows and arrows.
What is archery?
North America’s largest river.
What is the Mississippi River?
The highest peak in North America.
What is Mount McKinley?
The Indians/Native Americans of Central America.
Who are the Maya?
A narrow bridge of land that connects North America to South America.
What is Central America?
The setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive.
What is habitat?
The world’s largest gulf.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The southernmost point in the Americas.
What is Cape Horn?
Dome-shaped buildings covered with leaves and bark.
What are wigwams?
Another word for corn.
What is maize?