Geography
What is the difference between absolute and relative location?
Absolute location uses exact coordinates or addresses, while relative location describes a place compared to other places.
What is the name of the Calendar we use today?
Gregorian Calendar.
Name of the first Americans?
Paleo-Indians
What are the 3 G's?
Gold, God, Glory
What are the 3 regions of the 13 colonies?
New England colonies
Middle colonies
Southern colonies
What does “contiguous states” mean in the United States? Which 2 States are Non-Contiguous?
States that are connected together on the mainland
Alaska and Hawaii are non-contiguous.
What is BC and what is AD?
Before Christ and Anno Domini (In the year of our lord).
Who are the 3 sisters?
Corn, Beans, & Squash
Why did Christopher Columbus sail, and where did he land?
He wanted to find a faster route to Asia and landed in the Bahamas.
The main reason people founded colonies.
Religious Freedom
What is the name of the 0° (red) latitude line dividing North and South? What is the name of the 0° (blue) line of longitude dividing East and West?
The Equator is 0° latitude, dividing North and South, while the Prime Meridian is 0° longitude, dividing East and West.
The wide stretch of land that connects Asia and North America is called what?
The Beringia Land Bridge.
How did Civilizations form?
The development of farming led to a stable food supply, which allowed people to settle in one place instead of constantly moving to find food.
Conqueror of the Aztec Empire.
Hernan Cortes
Policy of John Smith.
"Those who do not work, do not eat."
In which two hemispheres is South America located?
In the Southern and Western hemispheres.
How did the land bridge disappear?
Disappeared because the Ice Age ended. Glaciers melted, sea levels rose, and the land bridge was flooded by the ocean.
How did the Anasazi protect themselves? Give examples
They built remarkable towns on the sides of cliffs and canyons to protect against the elements and from enemies attacking from all sides.
Compass, Caravel, Astrolabe, Lateen Sail, Maps, Stern Rudder, Sextant
Founder of New York
James, Duke of York
What is the main difference between GIS and GPS?
GIS analyzes and maps geographic data, while GPS shows your exact location.
Why did the first Americans cross the land bridge?
It is believed they were chasing game.
Name the 3 Maya achievements.
Writing System (Hieroglyphs)
Astronomy (Calendar)
Mathematics (invented the 0)
Name of the 3 ships given to Columbus
Niña, Pinta, Santa María
Where was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Name all 5 Oceans.
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Southern
Arctic
What are archeologists, and what do they look for?
Archeologists are scientists who study the past, and they look for artifacts.
Name of the Early Native American hunter-gatherers known for their stone spear points.
Clovis-People
Conqueror of the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro
Which region had colder temperatures, relied on fishing and shipbuilding?
New England Colonies
Name 4 USA territories.
Puerto Rico
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands
American Samoa
Year 998 is in what Century?
It is in the 10th Century.
09 + 1 = 10
Name of the feathered serpent god of the Aztecs and Toltecs.
Quetzalcoatl
Who had a crew that circumnavigated the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which colonies were known as the "Breadbasket of America?"
The Middle Colonies
Name all 7 continents.
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
What are the 3 theories as to how the first Americans arrived?
The Land Bridge Theory, the Boat Theory, or the Always Have Been Here Theory.
Ruler of the Aztec empire during the Spanish conquest.
Moctezuma II, the last emperor of the Aztec empire.
What did Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama do?
Dias reached the southern tip of Africa; da Gama sailed around Africa to India.
What did the 13 colonies export to Europe?
Raw materials like Tobacco, Cotton, wheat, and animal fur.
What are the 5 main United States Regions?
Northeast
Southeast
Midwest
Southwest
West
A Period of 10 years is called a what?
A Period of 100 years is called a what?
A Period of 1000 years is called a what?
Decade
Century
Millenium
Which civilization spread its culture through trade and may have had the earliest forms of writing in the Americas?
The Olmec civilization.
Who searched for the Fountain of Youth?
Juan Ponce de Leon.
Which founder made peace treaties with the natives, gave religious freedom, and gave people the right to vote?
William Penn, the Quaker.
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
How many years are between 500 BC and 1000 AD?
1499 years
500 + 1000 = 1500
Subtract 1 because there is no year 0.
Name of the Aztec capital and the name of the lake it was built upon.
Tenochtitlán was built on top of Lake Texcoco.
What is the Silk Road? And what did Europeans want?
An ancient trade route that connected China to Europe and the Middle East. Europeans wanted spices, silk, and porcelain.
Name the 13 Colonies
New England Colonies
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Middle Colonies
5. New York
6. New Jersey
7. Pennsylvania
8. Delaware
Southern Colonies
9. Maryland
10. Virginia
11. North Carolina
12. South Carolina
13. Georgia