Maps and Models
Landforms
Weathering and Erosion
Native Americans
Early Explorers
100
A 3-dimensional representation of something.
What is a model?
100
This landform occurs when earth's plates collide, pushing one or both of them upward.
What is a mountain?
100
The first step of erosion when rock is broken into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Fish traps, baskets, and clay pots are examples of ______left by Native Americans.
What are artifacts?
100
This person studies ancient civilizations.
What is an archaeologist?
200
A physical or imaginary line that separates one area from another.
What is a boundary?
200
Florida is an example of this landform.
What is a peninsula?
200
The particles moved by water and deposited somewhere else.
What is sediment?
200
Most Native Americans were ____, moving from place to place to follow food.
What is nomadic?
200
Finding riches and resources were _______for early explorers.
What are motivations?
300
This line marks 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The three parts of this word mean 'a person who' + 'describes' + 'the Earth'.
What is a geographer?
300
This river caused erosion that formed the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
300
Homes made of clay, wood, or buffalo skin are examples of NAs using available _____.
What are resources?
300
Columbus sailed west because he thought sailing east around ___ would take too long.
What is Africa?
400
On a topographical map, contour lines show changes in ____.
What is elevation or altitude?
400
The ____________ of the Nile River is good farmland because of the rich soil deposited by annual floods.
What is floodplain?
400
The three parts of this word mean 'the process of' + 'putting something' + 'down'.
What is deposition?
400
Homes built underground or without walls are examples of _____ to climate.
What are adaptations?
400
The ______ of a ship might use an astrolabe or compass to plan a route.
What is a navigator?
500
If a map's scale is 1 inch = 250 miles, how many inches would 1500 miles be?
What is 6 inches?
500
The __________ ___________ of the Mississippi River drains 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
What is drainage basin?
500
This type of non-living materials are the largest components of soil.
What is inorganic?
500
Scientists believe this event forced NAs to migrate southward through the Americas.
What is the Ice Age?
500
Some historians think the ____, from Norway and Sweden, were the first Europeans in North America.
Who are the Vikings?
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