What is the study of our physical and cultural surroundings?
100
An area in which many features are similar.
What is a region?
100
The largest river in the United States
What is the Mississippi River?
100
A movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
100
Areas of the world where people develop similar ways of life or cultures.
What are cultural regions?
200
globe
What is the most accuate map of the Earth?
200
The gradual wearing away of the Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
200
Tales that a group of people tell about where they came from and how the Earth came to be.
What is origin stories?
200
Houses built out of snow and ice
What is igloos?
200
Objects made by humans
What are artifacts?
300
Imaginary lines that circle the Earth from west to east.
What is latitude?
300
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
300
The path followed by a group of people when they move from one country or area of the world to another.
What is migration route?
300
Something found in nature, such as soil, plants, water, or minerals that people use to meet their needs.
What are natural resources?
300
This Native American tribe made warm, waterproof coats and hats from cedar bark.
What is the Kwakiutl?
400
A line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is prime meridian?
400
The surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live.
What is environment?
400
Adjust; change ideas and ways of living to fit a new situation, such as a new environment
What is adapt?
400
ways of living of different groups of people
What are cultures?
400
This Native American group created clay pots in which they stored their limited water.
What is the Hopi?
500
The position of one place compare to other places
What is relative location?
500
The imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
500
This Native American tribe built their homes called chickees with no walls, on wooden platforms three feet above the ground.
What is the Seminole?
500
This Native American tribe used small trees bent into dome-shaped frames to make their houses and they made amazingly fast, light canoes out of cedar and birch trees.
What is the Algonquian tribes?
500
This Native American tribe felt that the buffalo was so valuable that they considered it sacred.