Geography of the US
The cardinal directions
What are North, West, East, and South?
Sunlight, air, and water
What are natural resources?
Some Native Americans were called this who moved from place to place
What is nomadic?
A person who travels in search of new geographical information is called
What is an explorer?
A community ruled by another country
What is a colony?
Imaginary lines that run from the North to the South Pole
What are longitude lines?
A natural environment includes this
What are plants?
In the Southwest, there are many of these that are flat-topped hills with steep sides
What are mesas?
When Europeans colonized this, they referred to it as the “New World.”
What is the Americas?
a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s
What is a conquistador?
A sphere that is a model of Earth
What is a globe?
Wearing animal skin for clothes was so that the Inuits could survive where they lived
What is an adaptation?
An object made by a group of people is called this
What is an artifact?
an early scientific tool used to observe the position of the sun and stars
What is an astrolabe?
a route across the northern part of North America
What is the Northwest Passage?
Makes the laws in a country, state, or community
What is the government?
Most early Native Americans settled in places that had lot of these
What are natural resources?
Some tribes were nomadic because of this
What is they needed to find food?
The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to this place
What is Asia?
a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another
What is a contagious disease?
located at 0° latitude
What is the Equator?
people moving from Asia to North America that began at least 15,000 years ago
What is migration?
an old clay pot is an example of this
What is an artifact?
explorers planted flags to show this
What is to claim land for their country?
the rulers of Spain want a shorter route to the East Indies because of this
What is to get silks and spices?