Geography of the US
Native Americans and their Land
Native American Cultural Regions
How and Why Europeans came to the Americas
Routes of Exploration to the Americas
100

The cardinal directions

What are North, West, East, and South?

100

Sunlight, air, and water

What are natural resources?

100

 Some Native Americans were called this who moved from place to place

What is nomadic?

100

A person who travels in search of new geographical information is called

What is an explorer?

100

A community ruled by another country

What is a colony?

200

Imaginary lines that run from the North to the South Pole

What are longitude lines?

200

A natural environment includes this

What are plants?

200

In the Southwest, there are many of these that are flat-topped hills with steep sides

What are mesas?

200

When Europeans colonized this,  they referred to it as the “New World.”

What is the Americas?

200

a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s

What is a conquistador?

300

A sphere that is a model of Earth

What is a globe?

300

Wearing animal skin for clothes was so that the Inuits could survive where they lived

What is an adaptation?

300

An object made by a group of people is called this

What is an artifact?

300

an early scientific tool used to observe the position of the sun and stars

What is an astrolabe?

300

a route across the northern part of North America

What is the Northwest Passage?

400

Makes the laws in a country, state, or community

What is the government?

400

Most early Native Americans settled in places that had lot of these

What are natural resources?

400

 Some tribes were nomadic because of this

What is they needed to find food?

400

The Age of Exploration began with a search for new trade routes to this place

What is Asia?

400

a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another

What is a contagious disease?

500

located at 0° latitude

What is the Equator?

500

people moving from Asia to North America  that began at least 15,000 years ago

What is migration?

500

an old clay pot is an example of this

What is an artifact?

500

explorers planted flags to show this

What is to claim land for their country?

500

the rulers of Spain want a shorter route to the East Indies because of this

What is to get silks and spices?