Continents and Oceans
Native Americans
Columbus
First Americans
Riddles
100

What continent do we live on?

North America

100

How did the Europeans beat the Native Americans so easily?

Guns/Disease

100

What year did Columbus sail the Ocean Blue?

1492

100

How did the First Americans get to America?

A Land Bridge?

100

What's bigger the more you take away

A hole

200

What is the biggest Continent?

Asia
200

Another name for the Haudenosaunee

Iroquois (People of the Longhouse)

200

Where did Columbus think he was sailing?

Asia (India)

200

Fill in the blanks: The Land Bridge was connected between ___________ and ____________ (continents)

North America and Asia

200

What has four finger and a thumb, but isn't alive?

A glove

300

Which Ocean is in the Northern part of the world

Arctic

300

Name the two Native American groups that lived in the same region, but hated each other

Iroquois and Algonquin

300

Which direction did Columbus sail?

West

300

What is an artefact?

A piece of history
300

What do the Letter "T" and an Island have in common

You can find them both in the middle of water

400

Lines that go Horizontal

Longitude

400

What percentage of Native Americans were wiped out after Columbus arrived in America?

90%

400

Name the three reasons Europeans wanted to go to the Americas

God, Gold, Glory

400

How many years ago did the Land Bridge occur

Varying answering (anywhere between 40,000 - 25,000)

400

I'm a rare case where "today" comes before "yesterday". What am I?

A Dictionary

500

What two oceans separate the Western and Eastern Hemispheres?

Pacific and Atlantic

500

Name the five nations that make up the Iroquois

Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk

500

Name the three ships Columbus sailed to America with

Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

500

Explain to me why environment affects culture

(Something about how temperature or wildlife impacts homes, hunting, clothes, etc.)

500

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter "M"

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