5 Themes
Vocabulary
Explorers and such
New York
5 Themes Examples
100

The definition is money

What is Economy?

100

way of life for people

What is culture? 

100

The year in which Columbus set sail for a new trade route? 

What is 1492?

100

Farther from the equator the temperature is

What is cooler?

100

Stock market crashes

What is economy?

200

study of past events

What is history?

200

Someone who moves from place to place to meet their needs

What is nomad? 

200

Land used by Asian tribes to get to North America

What is the land bridge? 

200

The largest city in NY state

What is NYC? 

200

Massive flooding near the Mississippi River. 

What is geography?

300

Study of land

What is geography?

300

Spanish explorers who claimed land for Spain

What are conquistadors? 

300

What caused many Native Americans to die during the Columbian Exchange? 

What is disease? 

300

New York has ____ branches of government

What is 3? 

300

President signs a new law.

What is political science? 

400

Study of people and societies

What is social sciences?
400

Lines that measure north and south

What are Latitude?

400

What was the first European nation to settle in NY

What is the Dutch?

400

 True or False -Economy of NY is only apples and grapes.

What is false? 

400

Studies show cell phone use could affect the brain.

What is social science?

500

Political Science is 

What is the study of how we govern?
500

Lines that measure east and west of the Prime Meridian 

What is longitude? 

500

What country gave New York the name New York

What is British?

500

The 2 mountain ranges in NY are 

What are the Adirondacks and Catskills?

500

The Titanic sinks in 1916.

What is history?