Explorers
Canada
The Plains
Geography Terms
Native American Tribes Double It
100
He was the first explorer in the modern times to reach North America's mainland.
John Cabot
100
Canada's capital
Ottawa
100
A plain or hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses The largest land animal in the Western Hemisphere
Praire Bison
100
The longest river in the USA
Mississippi
100
Famous Indians of South America Famous Indians of Central America
South America =Incas Central America= Maya
200
His search for the Northwest Passage gave France a claim to Canada
Jacques Cartier
200
Canada's two official languages
French and English
200
True or False Praire regions experience more extreme weather conditions than other areas. True or False Most Plains Indians lived in tepees
True True
200
The world's largest gulf
Gulf of Mexico
200
Indians from this tribe defeated Custer at Little Big Horn This tribe was named for the color of their moccasins
Sioux= Custer defeat Blackfoot= mocassins
300
The world's largest bay is named for this explorer
Henry Hudson
300
Canada's form of government
Constititional Monarchy
300
The plants that are least likely to grow on a praire are
trees
300
The hills that contain Mount Rushmore
Black Hills
300
Tribe that lived in the Florida Everglades Tribe that kept a pictural chronicle of their history
Everglades= Seminole Picture history= Delaware
400
He was the founder of Rhode Island and of the first Baptist Church in America
Roger Williams
400
Canada is the world's leading producer of this mineral
nickel or zinc
400
The most important animals to Native Americans of the plains was
Bison
400
An important Atlantic current that begins in the Gulf of Mexico A region in the Dakotas which has many irregular cliffs and spectacularly colored hills
Gulf Stream Badlands
400
Famous Indains to settle in Mexico Tribe that celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims
Mexico= Aztecs Pilgrams= Wampanoag
500
Early explorers of Canada were searching for a water route to Asia that they called the __________
Northwest Passage
500
England gained control of most of North America as a result of this war.
The French and Indian War
500
The ground squirrel that lived in vast underground "towns" stretching over the prairie The Indians of the Dakota trive were also called
praire dog Sioux
500
The longest and largest river in the Western Hemisphere The largest river in the USA
Amazon Mississippi
500
The advance cilizaton that is famous for their bural mounds The five tribes that formed the League of Five Nations
Burial Mounds= Hopewell League of Five Nations= Iroquois
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