North America Quiz Review

Natural Resources

100

These are the 2 types of natural resources

Renewable and non renewable

200

Trees, crops, wood, etc. are examples of this type of resource

Renewable resource

300

This is the word that is used to describe protecting the earth's natural resources for the future

Sustainability

400

This water passage is essential for economic growth for both American and international companies

The St. Lawrence Seaway

500

Groundwater is this type of natural resource

Non renewable

Human Environment Interactions

100

Name 1 way humans impact the environment

Overpopulation, Overconsumption, Pollution, Climate Change, Fertilizers and Pesticides, Deforestation, Hunting + Fishing, Genetic Modification, Desertification, Waste Creation, Ocean Acidification

200

Humans limited ability to survive long term in Antarctica is an example of this 

Environmental Determinism

300

Humans ability to live in places like Albuquerque, New Mexico is because of this concept

Possibilism 

400

Possiblism says that it is not the world around us that controls how we live, but this thing instead.

Social Conditions

500

Name the 3 ways humans interact with the environment

Live where we want/need, change the environment according to want/need, adapt to what cannot be changed

Oregon Statehood

100

TRUE/FALSE:

Lewis and Clark's mission was to discover the Northwest

FALSE.

Discover Northwest PASSAGE.

200

In 1841 the meetings that would lead to the creation of the Oregon territory began in this now iconic state park

Champoeg

300

Who were some of the first settlers of Oregon after the Oregon Trail was established?

Missionaries

400

Before moving the state government to Salem, this city was the OG Oregon capitol city

Oregon City

500

This law was created as a way to bribe people back east to hit the Oregon Trail, as long as they worked hard for 4 years.

Oregon Donation Land Claim Act of 1850

Oregon and Racism

100

In 1857 the Oregon government relocated thousands of Indigenous peoples on a 263 mile journey, known as this

Oregon Trail of Tears

200

TRUE/FALSE:

Oregon made slavery illegal, causing thousands of black Americans to move west

FALSE.

Oregon outlawed slavery, but also forbid black Americans to live in the territory

300

Through various treaties, Indigenous tribes were given land that they could govern and rule in any way they liked, known as these.

Reservations

400

This government-recognized tribe is actually not just one tribe but a collection of dozens of different Indigenous cultures forced onto one reservation.

The Confederate Tribes of Grand Rhond 

500

This 1840's law was technically enforceable law until 1926

Territorial Legislature