Basic Vocabulary
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100

The written record of mankind.

What is History?

100

A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.

What is a strait?

100

The third largest continent.

What is North America?

100

Homes made of buffalo hides stretched around a frame of poles.

What are teepees?

100

The movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another.

What is migration?

200

The study of the earth’s surface.

What is geography?

200

The world’s largest bay.

What is Hudson Bay?

200

A narrow strip of land which connects two larger bodies of land.

What is an isthmus?

200

The most famous Indians/ Native Americans who lived in Mexico.

What are the Aztecs?

200

Ocean on the coast of California.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

300

Unique way of life.

What is culture?

300

The narrow body of water that links the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific’s Bering Sea and separates Russia from Alaska.

Bering Strait

300

The seven continents in order of size.

What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia?

300

A type of light axe made by Native Americans.

What is a tomahawk?

300

The ocean on the coast of North Carolina beaches.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

400

Shooting with bows and arrows.

What is archery?

400

North America’s largest river.

What is the Mississippi River?

400

The highest peak in North America.

What is Mount McKinley?

400

The Indians/Native Americans of Central America.

Who are the Maya?

400

A narrow bridge of land that connects North America to South America.

What is Central America?

500

The setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive.

What is habitat?

500

The world’s largest gulf. 

What is the Gulf of Mexico?

500

The southernmost point in the Americas.

What is Cape Horn?

500

Dome-shaped buildings covered with leaves and bark.

What are wigwams?

500

Another word for corn.

What is maize?