This vocabulary word is one of the seven largest land masses on earth.
What is a continent?
100
This is New Jersey's largest natural region.
A. Piedmont
B. Atlantic Coastal Plain
C. Appalachian Ridge and Valley
D. Highlands
What is the B. Atlantic Coastal Plain?
100
This vocabulary word means plant life.
What is vegetation?
100
These were the first people to live in what is now New Jersey.
What are Paleo-Indians?
100
This vocabulary word means ways of life.
What are cultures?
200
This vocabulary word is an area with features that set them apart from other areas.
What is a region?
200
This is a physical feature that lies in the Piedmont region.
A. a large plain of sandy soil
B. Kittatinny Mountain
C. the Palisades
D. the Musconetcong River valley
What is C. the Palisades?
200
This vocabulary word is a strong storm.
What is a nor'easter?
200
This is the time when Woodlands Indians lived in what is now New Jersey.
A. at the same time as the Paleo-Indians
B. many years after the Lenape
C. the never lived in New Jersey
D. many years before the Lenape
What is D. many years before the Lenape?
200
This is what the Lenape did in warm weather and what they did in cold weather.
What is growing and storing vegetables in warm weather and hunting in cold weather?
300
This is the region of the United States in which New Jersey is located.
A. Southeast region
B. Northwest region
C. Southwest region
D. Northeast region
What is the D. Northeast region?
300
This vocabulary word is the wearing away of rock and soil.
What is erosion?
300
This is possible because of New Jersey's climate and rich soil.
A. Farms grow large amounts of fresh produce
B. The tourist industry has developed
C. Minerals can be mined throughout the state.
D. Many goods are manufactured.
What is A. farms grow large amounts of fresh produce?
300
This is the time when the Lenape first appeared in New Jersey.
A. about 10,000 years ago
B. about 1,100 years ago
C. about 15,000 years ago
D. about 5,000 years ago
What is B. about 1,100 years ago?
300
This is what the Archaic Indians eventually learned to do to meet their needs (remember what you did in your Indian villages with Mr. Warlick).
What is trading with people from other villages?
400
This is the number of natural regions in New Jersey.
What is four?
400
These are two ways to describe the Atlantic Coastal Plain region.
What is...
-divided into 2 regions
-Inner Coastal Plain has rich soil good for farming
-Outer Coastal Plain has white, sandy beaches
-Outer Coastal Plain has a forest with oak and pine trees
400
This is one example of how natural resources can be classified.
What is renewable and nonrenewable?
What is living and nonliving?
400
This change in the environment caused early people to change their ways of life.
What is the climate becoming drier and warmer after the last Ice Age ended?
Large animals (mammoths, etc.) died out. Early people adapted by hunting smaller animals. The people moved less and started farming.
400
These are two jobs traditionally done by Lenape women.
What is cooking, making clay pots, gathering, drying and storing food for winter, and/or gathering firewood?
500
This is the largest urban area in New Jersey.
A. northeastern corner
B. northwestern corner
C. southeastern corner
D. southwestern corner
What is the A. northeastern corner?
500
This is how New Jersey's natural regions were shaped.
What is...
-glaciers moving through and causing erosion in New Jersey
-glaciers melting to form large lakes and leave rich soil
-sea level dropping to reveal Atlantic Coastal Plain
500
These are two items that New Jersey is known for manufacturing.
What are chemicals, medicines, books, magazines, electronics, computers, plastics, rubber, machinery?
500
This is the reason why Archaic Indians moved from place to place (nomads).
What is following herds of animals and hunting them for food and hides?
500
These are the lines that run from north to south on a globe or map.