Chapter Vocabulary
These giant sheets of ice once covered Minnesota and shaped its landscape.
What are Glaciers?
This is the largest of the Great Lakes which borders Minnesota in the northeast.
What is Lake Superior?
The glaciers created these when they began to melt overtime.
What are lakes or the Great Lakes?
This is the study of human society, including the five main disciplines: civics, economics, ethnic studies, geography, and history.
What is Social Studies?
This is the continent that is home to the United States.
What is North America?
An object such as a tool, piece of clothing, or decoration created or used by humans that is a source of information about the past.
What is an Artifact?
This is the capital city of Minnesota.
What is St. Paul?
This animal learns a lesson from a wolf, who tells it to "talk less and listen more" in order to learn something.
Who is Eagle?
These sources are firsthand accounts of a historical event, person, or experience. For example, a diary entry or a speech would be one of these.
What are Primary Sources?
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A respected, older member of the community who play a crucial role in learning, remembering, and passing down information through the oral tradition.
What is an Elder?
This is the largest river in Minnesota, which starts at Lake Itasca and runs down to Louisiana.
What is the Mississippi River?
This is the name for the three crops that thrive when growing together: Squash, Corn, and Beans.
What is the "Three Sisters"
This is a way of understanding oneself and the wider world, or in other words, a point of view.
What is a Perspective?
These two continents join together to form the biggest landmass in the world.
What are Europe and Asia?
The study of past human life by examining physical evidence that people left behind.
What is Archaeology?
This city is the largest port city in Duluth, seated right on the tip of Lake Superior.
What is Duluth?
These are the carvings found at Jeffers that give evidence of ancient human life.
What are Petroglyphs?
This type of source interprets primary sources and is created by someone who was not directly involved in the historical event of experience, such as our textbook.
What is a Secondary Source?
This continent is the smallest of the continents.
What is Australia?
Information and interpretation based on primary and secondary sources.
This river eventually joins with the Mississippi River at the Bdote, or Pike Island in St. Paul. This river is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota.
What is the Minnesota River?
Through these two ways of studying history, we can learn about past human life.
What are Archaeology and Oral Tradition?
This is the study of places and the people who live in them. It also includes the physical features of the world.
What is Geography?
This ocean sits right above the continent of Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?