Geography
What kind of map shows the geographical features of a specific area?
What is the Greenhouse Gas Effect?
Gases in Earth's atmposhere that trap heat from the sun.
What areas are considered the "New World"?
The Americas or land that European countries explored
What happened in the middle of the 1300s? Before this European nations were successful in isolation.
European exploration began.
What kind of map represents national boundaries such as states and countries?
What is a political map?
What is a hemisphere?
What is half the earth?
What are two possible causes of the Greenhouse Gas Effect?
1. Burning fossil fuels
2. Farming
3. Deforestation
False
What was the overall motivation for exploration amongst the European countries?
What is riches, knowledge, money, and power?
What geographical region contains the states Hawaii and Alaska?
What is an example of a human-made change?
1. Bridges
2. Buildings
3. Sidewalks
4. Roads
(NYC)
What are two types of inventions that helped make travel safer and more affordable?
What are:
1. Compass
2. Maps
3. Better sails
4. Hourglass
5. Astrolabe
What two countries were apart of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Why did European countries need to seek new trade routes?
What is to make travel safer and more affordable?
What is an example of a peninsula?
What is Florida?
What does an increase of the Greenhouse Effect cause?
What is Global Warming?
Name one country that explored the "New World".
1. Spain
2. Portugal
3. France
4. England
What is the Line of Demarcation?
A line that divided the world into ½ for Spain and Portugal to claim.
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is the Equator?
An imaginary line on the Earth that splits the world into the Northern and Southern hemisphere.
What is an example of a Greenhouse gas?
1. Carbon Dioxide
2. Methane
What is the Northwest Passage?
What is a potential shortcut through the newly found continent of Northwest America to Asia?
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
What is it moved the line of demarcation west a little bit.
Name one European explorer.
1. John Cabot
2. Sir Frances Drake
3. Peter Stuyvesant
4. Giovanni da Verrazzano
5. Samuel de Champlain
6. Jacques Cartier