This line of longitude divides the earth in half from North to South.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
What do we call a person from Europe?
What is a European?
100
Who was the first explorer to discover a sea route to the New World?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Look at the chart below. Which natural resource is utilized the most?
Sunlight 32%
Water 15%
Trees 48%
Oil 5%
What are trees?
200
Name the seven continents.
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica
200
This line of latitude runs West to East and divides the earth in half.
What is the Equator?
200
Christopher Newport wanted to colonize Virginia. What does the word colonize mean?
a) to settle and live
b) to spread diseases
c) to sell land
d) to discover
What is A?
200
This explorer arrived at present day Jamestown, brought people to Jamestown, and was one of the first men to reach the fall line of the James River.
Who is Christopher Newport?
200
What does it mean if there is a limited supply of goods and not enough of it to go around?
What is scarcity?
300
How many hemispheres are there and what are they?
What is 4- -northern, southern, western, eastern
300
Use your map to answer this question:
If we wanted to go from Virginia to West Virginia, which direction would we need to go?
What is Northwest.
300
Using the map handout, tell us each country that sponsored the following explorers:
Juan Ponce de Leon
Columbus
Newport
Cartier
What is
JPdL- Spain
Columbus- Spain
Newport- England
Cartier- France
300
This explorer explored the St. Lawrence River Valley and gave France a North American claim.
What is Jaques Cartier?
300
Dana is making cupcakes for her school's bake sale. Is Dana a consumer or a producer?
What is a producer?
400
What are the five oceans?
What is Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern
400
Name three features on a map.
What is legend or key, title, compass rose?
400
Which continent did all explorers originate from?
What is Europe?
400
This explorer was the first to land in Florida and gave Spain claim to Florida.
What is Juan Ponce de Leon?
500
Which imaginary lines run west to east?
What are lines of latitude?
500
What do we call northwest, southwest, northeast, and southeast?
What are intermediate direction?
500
Name the areas that were explored by each explorer.
What is
JPdL- St. Augustine, Florida
Newport- Jamestown, Virginia
Columbus- San Salvador, Bahamas
Carter- Quebec, Canada
500
Who took the ships the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
What is Christopher Columbus?
500
Leila has to choose between buying a CD or buying a DVD. She decides to buy a CD. What was her opportunity cost?