Physical Features
This physical region covers much of Canada and parts of the northern United States.
What is the Canadian Shield?
This ancient land bridge once connected Alaska and Russia.
What is Beringia?
Leif Eriksson was the son of this famous Viking.
Who is Erik the Red?
Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic in this year.
What is 1492?
A large ecological area with particular plants, animals, and environmental conditions is called this.
What is a biome?
These formed many of the lakes, rivers, swamps, and wetlands in the Canadian Shield.
What are glaciers?
Early hunters and gatherers crossed Beringia while following these.
What are animals?
Leif Eriksson explored North America around this year.
What is A.D. 1000?
Maize, potatoes, and tomatoes were examples of crops taken from the Americas to this continent.
What is Europe?
This climate zone is found in northern Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.
What is the polar climate zone?
This mountain range stretches from Canada to central Alabama.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Archaeologists study these objects and remains to learn about early migration.
What are artifacts?
Leif Eriksson gave this name to the region he explored in North America.
What is Vinland?
The Columbian Exchange involved the movement of plants, animals, culture, diseases, technology, and these.
What are ideas?
This biome is characterized by trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
What is the deciduous forest?
This mountain is the tallest mountain in North America.
What is Denali?
This theory suggests that people may have crossed the Atlantic Ocean before the Clovis people.
What is the Solutrean theory?
Leif Eriksson reached North America nearly this many centuries before Columbus.
What are four centuries?
Columbus was searching for a trade route to the _____ when he crossed the Atlantic.
What is the East Indies?
This biome is mainly found in the interior of North America and contains many grasses and few trees.
What are grasslands?
This natural feature separates water flowing in opposite directions.
What is a continental divide
Early Americans developed different ways of living based on this factor.
What is their environment?
According to the text, Erik the Red established a European settlement in this place.
What is Greenland?
Africans were forced onto these ships during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What are slave ships?
This climate zone has high temperatures and high humidity and is found in places such as southern Florida and Puerto Rico.
What is the tropical climate zone?