Continents
Water
Geography Basics
Kansas History
100
The continent where we live.
What is North America?
100
The body of water between North America and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
A sphere-shaped map.
What is a globe?
100
The man who sparked the fighting between proslavery & antislavery forces during Bleeding Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
200
The continent east of the United States, including places like England, Italy, Germany, & France.
What is Europe?
200
The ocean between South America and Asia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
A number that gives the average amount of money made by a country's economy. It is useful to figure out which countries are richer or poorer.
What is per capita GDP?
200
The name for the several years of drought and wind that forced several farmers in Kansas and other states to leave their farms and try to find other jobs.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
The continent east of Europe, including the countries of India and China.
What is Asia?
300
The river that keeps Egypt green & growing.
What is the Nile River?
300
A group of people who usually share the same language, religion, and culture.
What is an ethnic group?
300
The term for treating people differently based on the color of their skin.
What is racism? (Discrimination can be based on something other than skin color)
400
The only continent that has only one country.
What is Australia?
400
The river that flows through North America and into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
This term describes one ethnic group being destroyed by another group of people.
What is genocide?
400
The court case that made it illegal for schools to be segregated by race.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
500
The continent that does not include any countries and most of the permanent residents are penguins.
What is Antarctica?
500
The major river that flows through Brazilian rain forest.
What is the Amazon River?
500
The process of a country becoming more "modern" by improving the economy (building factories), transportation (roads), health, and schools.
What is development?
500
The overall goal of Populists, Socialists, and Progressives.
What is making life more fair for everyone, not just the rich.