Geography
American Indian Regions
Age of Exploration
Landforms/Water Features
Vocabulary
100

The meaning of 'geo.'

What is Earth?

100

What is an example of an adaptation that Native Americans used?

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100

Explorers came to America from this continent.

What is Europe?

100

This water feature is a bridge between 2 larger bodies of water.

What is a strait?
100

Weather measured over a long period of time?

What is climate?

200

A sphere shaped representation of Earth.

What is a globe?

200

Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, and minerals.

What is a natural resource?

200

Three motivations for coming to the Americas.

Gold, Glory, God, Greed

200

A flat top hill with steep sides.

What is a plateau? 

200

The difference between longitude and latitude.

What is latitude runs East to West and longitude runs from North to South.


300

These are the 4 cardinal directions.

What is North, South, East, and West?

300

A very valuable animal who Native Americans considered sacred

What is a bison?

300

Reasons explorers traveled to find Asia.

What are spices and silks?

300

This landform is a land bridge between two larger bodies of land.

What is an isthmus?

300

Historians study these man-made products to better understand the past. Examples include jewelry, diaries, and tools.

What are artifacts?

400

Lines that circle Earth from east to west

What are Lines of Longitude?

400

The name for the Native Americans who lived in the Arctic.

The Inuits.

400

Name 2 of the 3 navigation tools the explorers used on their ships to help find their way across the ocean.

Map

Compass

Astrolabe

400

Florida is considered this type of landform.

What is a peninsula?
400

A crop that is grown in large quantities for sale.

What is a cash crop?

500

The 4 intermediate directions.

NW, SW, NE, SE

500

A location where Native Americans would tell stories or have religious ceremonies.

What is a kiva?

500

Sponsor of Christopher Columbus.

What is Spain?

500

This water feature resembles a chicken's foot.

What is a delta?

500

Another Hispanic sounding name for the explorers we learned about who conquered land in the Americas. 

What is a conquistador.