1 Geography
2 N. Americans and their Land
3 Cultural Regions
4 Why Europeans Left for the New World
5 Routes of Exploration
100
The four main points on a compass rose.
What are the cardinal points?
100
Animal skins, deer, and trees are all a part of this type of resource.
What are natural resources?
100
The region that Hopi lived in and they used stone and clay to build their apartment buildings.
What is the Southwest region?
100
The name the European explorers called the Americas.
What is the New World?
100
Explorers wanted to find a shorter route to Asia and called it this.
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
An imaginary line that circles the Earth from east to west.
What is the equator?
200
The Native American migration route.
What is crossing a landbridge from Asia into the Americas?
200
The region in which there are four different seasons and trees were a major natural resource.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
200
Explorers used this to keep them on course as they sailed to and from the New World.
What is the astrolabe?
200
When the Europeans came to the New World, they spread sickness to the Native Americans.
What are contagious diseases?
300
Masses of land, such as continents, islands, and peninsulas.
What are landforms?
300
Grasslands, deserts, mountains, and arctic ice fields.
What are the four main environments the Native Americans settled in?
300
The reason in which the Native Americans had abundant buffalo and considered the animal sacred.
What is the Great Plains?
300
This artifact was the most valuable item explorers brought from the New World to Europe.
What is gold and silver?
300
This explorer has a large body of water named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
The largest mountain range in America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
400
Snow goggles, igloo, and sealskin float are 3 examples most likely made by this certain tribe in their environment.
What are items that have likely been made by the Inuit in the Arctic Ice Field?
400
The region in which the Seminole built their homes, chickees, on wooden platforms three feet above the ground.
What is the Southeast region?
400
This became a cash crop that helped colonists buy goods from Europe.
What is tobacco?
400
Two examples of what the explorers gained.
What are gold and silver, land, new information for maps, establish settlements, and/or spread Christianity?
500
The name for where a river begins.
What is a source?
500
Changes in a way of life that allow people to survive in a particular environment.
What is adaptations?
500
A name of a tribe that lived in the Northwest Coast.
What are the Tlingit, Chinook, or Kwakiutl?
500
The period in the 1500s is called this.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
Two examples of what Native Americans, such as the Taino people of the Caribbean, lost.
What are languages, cultures, and/or entire tribes lost?
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