Study of America
What is the record of what has happened to mankind?
History
Permafrost
What are the vast evergreen forest that stretch for three thousand miles to cover much of Canada and parts of Alaska?
Taiga or Boreal Forest
What is the study of the earth?
Geography
What is the world's largest island?
Greenland
Who are the most famous Indians who lived in Mexico?
Aztecs
What is the smallest and coldest ocean?
Arctic Ocean
What are the treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline?
The Tundra
What bird is king of the birds?
Golden Eagle
What two continents are in the Western Hemisphere?
North & South America
What is the highest peak in North America?
Mt. McKinley
Who were the most famous South American Indians?
Incas
What is the area between the North Pole and the northern timberline?
the Arctic
What is a sea bird that migrates farther than any other bird?
Arctic Tern
What is America's largest rodent that has done more than any other animal to shape the landscape of North America
Beaver
What is the setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive?
Habitat
What is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water?
Strait
Who were one of the most advanced early civs of the Western Hemisphere?
Maya
What is the point beyond which trees cannot grow?
Timberline
What are little rodents four or five inches long that look like fat, round mice?
Lemmings
What are the trees that keep their leaves all year?
Evergreens
What is the third largest continent?
North America
What the narrow body of water that links the arctic Ocean to the Pacific's Bering Sea and seperates Russia from Alaska?
Bering Strait
Who was one of America's greatest athletes?
Jim Thorpe
What are large masses of ice that flow slowly over land?
Glaciers
What are long, hooded jackets made of different types of fur?
Parkas
What are the main trees of the taiga and are the oldest and largest trees in the world?
Conifers
What is the movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another?
Migration
What is the world's largest gulf?
Hudson Bay
Who has been called "America's Greatest Storyteller"?
Will Rogers
What do the people of Greenland and Arctic Canada prefer to be called?
Inuits
What kind of trees lose their leaves in the fall?
Deciduous