Five Themes of Geography & Economies of NM
This theme asks where a place is on Earth using latitude and longitude. This is a specific kind of theme that is described using precise numbers
What is absolute location?
These beings came to test the Ashiwi and later on punished them for not caring about others.
Who are the Corn Maidens?
This pueblo/tribe is near the Arizona border and is known for turquoise jewelry.
Who are the Zuni?
What is the Old World?
This symbol on a map tells you what the symbols and colors mean.
What is a key or legend?
This theme describes physical and human characteristics of an area.
What is place?
This was the third person left behind by the tribe.
Who is the Old Mother (old woman)?
Soldiers from the Navajo tribe who helped the Allies win WWII through their “unbreakable” radio code language are called what?
Who are the Code Talkers?
This mode of transportation, brought over from the Old World, significantly changed things for the Native Americans, especially with regards to hunting practices and trade.
What are horses?
These two buildings in New York City were attacked on 9/11/01.
What are the Twin Towers or World Trade Center?
This theme explains how people adapt to or change their surroundings.
What is human-environment interaction?
This theme within The Boy Who Made Dragonfly was shown to readers when the Ashiwi used their water blessing on a food fight.
What is "do not be wasteful" or "be grateful"?
The Chiricahua Apache (who were not officially recognized until 2011) are also known by what name?
Who are the Fort Sill Apache?
One of the major Meso-American empires fell within a couple of years after the Spanish arrived. However, this empire lasted for another 40 years or so.
Who are the Incas?
This line on a globe divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This theme refers to how people, goods, and ideas travel from one area to another.
What is movement?
This story is an example of this type of tale, which explains something about the world.
What is a myth or legend?
These tribes descended from the Athabaskan-speaking people who migrated South around 800-1000 years ago.
This empire was conquered by Hernán Cortés in present-day Mexico.
Who were the Aztecs?
This terrorist leader was the mastermind behind the 9/11/01 attacks on America.
Who was Osama bin Laden?
This theme divides the world into areas with similar features such as culture, climate, or language.
What is region?
After hearing the dragonfly’s message, the gods instructed the boy to create these to bring back the rain.
What are prayer plumes?
Navajo and Apache traditionally lived in movable, non-permanent structures, unlike this settled group.
Who are the Pueblo Tribes?
The Spanish defeated the Aztecs partly because of this unintentional biological weapon.
What is Smallpox?
The lines that run north and south but measure east and west are called these.
What are lines of longitude?
This theme is described using familiar landmarks and general directions, requiring some pre-existing knowledge of the area.
What is relative location?
This object represents themes of survival and generosity in the story.
What is the Dragonfly?
Chacoans traded turquoise mainly with groups from this region to the south.
What is Meso-America?
This animal transformed Native American travel, warfare, and hunting.
What is the horse?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This industry, including activities like hiking and visiting national parks, brings in money from visitors.
What is tourism?
Paleo-Indians were known as this because they traveled from place to place to find food.
What is nomadic? (Also accepted: Migration or migratory)
Trade was important because it helped spread these two things besides goods.
What are ideas and culture?
This New World food became a global staple due to its high nutrition.
What are potatoes?
“Three miles east of the Rio Grande” is an example of this kind of location.
This industry involves drilling, prospecting, and surveying and is popular, particularly in eastern NM.
What is mining, oil, and natural gas?
The Paleo-Indian group that came after the Clovis people and is known for their finely crafted, smaller spear points that are commonly referred to as these.
What are Folsom Points?
Traditional Pueblo homes were built from these materials.
What are adobe and stone?
This major event forced millions of Africans into the Americas for labor.
These early people were known for hunting giant bison with finely crafted stone points.
Who were the Folsom People?
This industry is rapidly increasing in New Mexico and involves studios, sound stages, and props.
What is the film industry?
These tools, attached to long wooden shafts, were thrown to hunt large animals before the invention of the bow and arrow.
What are atlatls?
These animals’ remains—found in Chaco Canyon—suggest long-distance trade from the Pacific coast.
This empire was conquered by Francisco Pizarro.
Who were the Incan?
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
Elements such as soil, weather, elevation, and overall climate are key factors related to this very important industry in New Mexico.
What is agriculture?
This site in New Mexico is one of the oldest known archaeological locations in North America.
What is the Blackwater Draw?
Chacoan buildings were called “Great Houses,” and the most famous one is this.
What is Pueblo Bonito?
This European animal helped Pueblo peoples develop new weaving techniques.
What are sheep?
The Spanish were far outnumbered by the Aztecs and Inca but still won. Besides weapons or disease, these social factors helped them succeed.
What are internal conflicts, alliances with enemy tribes, and resentment of the empires? (Just name one)