Geographic Features
Geographic Terms
Revolution
Westward Expansion
Vocabulary
100

What is the tallest mountain in the US?

What is Mount. Denali/McKinley 

100

What are fisheries?

What is a place where sea animals are grown, and then caught for consumption. 

100

What is an area inhabited by a foreign land?

What is a colony

100

What is Westward Expansion?

What is expanding westward. 

100

What is a recession?

What is a slight decline in economic productivity.

200

What is the oldest, mountain range in the US? 

What is the Appalachian Mountians

200

What is a timberline?

What is the elevation in which trees cannot grow, only lichens and mosses. 

200

Who was the Revolutionary War fought between?

What is the US and the British. 

200

When was the Gold Rush?

What was 1849


200

What are the four regions of the US?

What is the Northeast, South, West, and Midwest


300

What place in the US has the hottest recorded temperature, and what was the record? 

What is Death Valley and 134*F

300

What is the Canadian Shield?

What is anchoring our continent. 

300

What was the last battle of the Revolutionary war, and who was the General?

What was the Battle of Yorktown, and George Washington. 

300

What was the trail which led thousands of people to move west in search for new land and opportunity? 

What is the Oregon Trail. 

300

What is attacking someone based on their personal and or political beliefs?

What is terrorism
400

What landform lies between the eastern and western halves of the US? 

What is the Great Plains

400

What is tributaries?

What are smaller streams or rivers that feed into larger ones. 
400

What was written by our founding fathers, which we base our Government around? 

What is the Constitution

400

What was the name of the first settlers who settled west?

Who were pioneers


400

What word also means native?

What is Indigenous

500

What was the name of the fishing area in Canada that was rich with cod, but put laws in place to protect that species? 

What is the Grand Banks 

500

What is the Mississippi River?

What is the largest river in North America. 
500

What was signed in 1776 stating that "all men are created equal"

What is the Declaration of Independence

500

What was the name of the Act which allowed any person to settle on land as long as they produced goods off of it. 

What is the Homestead Act. 

500

What are the first 10 Amendments which give us our basic rights and freedoms?

What is the Bill of Rights