MO Geography
The capital city of Missouri.
What is Jefferson City?
This is what anything before the year 0 was called.
What is BCE or Before Common Era?
This is what Marquette and Jolliet were looking for as they explored the Mississippi river.
This is energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
What a thermometer measures.
What is temperature?
The two most important rivers in Missouri.
What are the Mississippi and Missouri rivers?
This tool was used to hunt bison in all periods except the Paleo Indian period.
What is the atlatl?
This is why black enslaved people were first brought to Missouri.
This is energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The person who studies weather is called.
What is a meteorologist?
The Missouri city that was the first settlement in the state.
What is Ste. Genevieve?
This period has evidence of people hunting mastodons and mammoths.
What is the Paleo Indian period?
This country "owned" the Louisiana territory from 1762 to 1800.
What is Spain?
Dominoes bumping into each other and falling is called.
This causes weather to happen.
What is when warm air and cool air mix?
The number of border states Missouri has.
What is eight (8)?
This period saw the development of the bow and arrow, with smaller and sharper projectile points.
What is the Woodland period?
The year the Louisiana territory be purchased by the United States.
What is 1803?
A giant circle, leading from the power source, around t, and back to the power source allowing electrons to flow from negative to positive.
What is a circuit?
This can come in the form of rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
This region was formed by a volcano hundreds of millions of years ago.
What is the Ozark Highlands?
This period saw the growth and end of the city we call Cahokia.
What is the Mississippian period?
This is why French fur traders want to establish trading posts along the Mississippi River.
What is the Mississippi River was a fast and cheap route for shipping furs down the river to the Gulf of Mexico, where ships would take them to Europe?
This is thermal energy that exists in matter.
What is heat?
This is long term trend of weather data.
What is climate?