Physical Features
Examples include rivers, bays, harbors, and oceans
What are waterways?
Deer, foxes, bobcats, black bears, beavers, and coyotes
What are forest animals in the Northeast?
Animal skins
How did people make their clothes?
This is described as any body of water that allows people to travel.
What is a waterway?
These lines run side to side
What are latitude lines?
The Appalachian Mountains
What is the major mountain range of the Northeast?
Marsh birds have nowhere to live.
What is a negative affect of destroying wetlands?
The Eastern Woodlands groups of Native Americans
Who were the first people to live in the Northeast?
Something that impacts or has an effect on something else is knows as this.
What is influence?
This announced to the world that the American colonists were a free and separate people from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Allowed Native American people to travel and trade
What are waterways?
These two factors affect the types of plants that can grow in a region
What is temperature and amount of rainfall?
This began as a traditional Native American game played among the Eastern Woodlands people.
What is lacrosse?
A location's height above sea level is known as this
The name of a place where coins are made.
What is a mint?
Another name for "water highways"
What are rivers?
Crops, lumber, seafood, and maple syrup
What are natural resources in the Northeast?
These were traded between the coastal groups and the European settlers.
What are furs and food?
A pit in the ground where stone and other materials can be mined is called this
What is a quarry?
This war marked the end of slavery in the United States.
What is the Civil War?
The rich soil created from this geographic feature made the valleys a great spot for farming.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
What are evergreens?
This was build from logs, bark, and sometimes clay. It was big enough for up to 20 family members to live in.
What was a longhouse?
This type of climate is one where all four distinct seasons are experienced each year.
What is a temperate climate?
This branch of the government is made up of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
What is the Judicial Branch?