Geography
Goovernment
U.S. History
Early People
History Skills
100

What is the largest continent on Earth?

What is Asia?

100

How wrote the Bill of Rights?

Who is James Madison?

100

What is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind or artifacts called?

What is archaeology?

100

What were people who moved form place to place called?

What are nomads?

100

What was the first English settlement in North America?

What was Jamestown?

200

How many Hemispheres are there on Earth?

What is four (4)?

200

Who was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

200

What are the remains of plant and animal life that have been preserved called?

What are fossils?

200

What is a people's shared values, beliefs, traditions, and behaviors called?

What is culture?

200

How many terms can the President of the United States serve?

What is two (2)?

300

What is are the two locations that geographers refer to?

What are absolute and relative locations?

300

Who was originally a Senator in Chicago but later became the 44th and the 45th President of the United States?

Who is Barack Obama?

300

What is the study of human cultures and how they develop over time called?

What is anthropology?

300

What is a highly developed society called?

What is a civilization?

300

What coin is no longer being made in the United States?

What is the penny?

400

What are the four major directions called?

What are north, south, east, and west?

400

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

What is July 4, 1776?

400

What is a written work or visual representation created by people who were not part of the historical event called?

What is a secondary source?

400

What were the 4 largest, most advanced earliest civilizations?

What were the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca?

400

What are the basic 3 types of maps that Historians generally use?

What are Physical Maps, Political Maps, and Thematic Maps?

500

What is the acronym for the Five Themes of Geography?

What is MR. HELP?

500

What type of government is ruled by a single person, usually a king or queen?

What is a monarchy?

500

What is the study of human relationships and society called?

What is social studies?

500

What was a form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds called?

What are hieroglyphics?

500

What war began o April 19, 1775 and ended on September 3, 1783?

What is the American Revolutionary War or the American Revolution?