VOCABULARY
The record of what has happened to mankind.
What is history?
Another name for the areas called North and South America.
What is The New World?
An archipelago (group of islands) off the southern tip of South America.
What is Tierra del Fuego?
The most famous missionary to the Canadian Inuits.
Who is Sir Wilfred Grenfell?
A Viking from Norway who founded the first European settlement in Greenland.
Who is Erik the Red?
The study of the earth.
What is geography?
The 3rd largest continent.
What is North America?
The southernmost point in the Americas.
What is Cape Horn?
The native people of Greenland and Arctic Canada.
Who are the Inuits?
"America's Greatest Storyteller" who is part Indian.
Who is Will Rogers?
The most famous Indians who lived in Mexico.
Who are the Aztecs?
The highest peak in North America.
What is Mt. McKinley?
Tierra del Fuego is separated from much of South America's mainland by the _______ ?
What is the Strait of Magellan?
One of America's greatest athletes that's of native Indian descent.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
The most famous South American Indians.
Who are the Incas?
What is timberline?
A 2,000 mile-long chain of mountainous islands in the Caribbean Sea.
What are the West Indies?
"King of the Birds" or the golden eagle is found here.
What is the taiga?
True or False:
Erik the Red gave Greenland its MISLEADING name.
TRUE!
The Indians of Central America.
Who are the Mayas?
Treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline.
What is the tundra?
One of the driest places on earth.
What is the Atacama Desert?
A range of mountains located on the west side of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
True or False:
Scientists estimate that if Greenland's ice melted all at once, the world's sea level would rise nearly twenty feet!
TRUE!
The native people of northern Alaska.
Who are the Eskimos?