North America Geography
These mountain ranges are in the West.
These mountains run along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
During the last ice age, a land bridge connected these two continents.
What are Asia and the Americas?
People in Mesoamerica built ceremony centers with pyramids and stone monuments during this time period.
What is 1200 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.?
This civilization planted gardens between the Salt and Gila Rivers.
What is Hohokam?
These mountains run along the Eastern coast.
What are the Appalachians?
This river starts in the Andes and travels 4000 miles to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
After arriving by boat and passing Alaska, early humans sailed along this coast.
What is the Pacific Coast?
Temples, palaces, and the Pyramid of the Sun was built in 250 C.E. – 800 C.E. in this location.
What is Central Mexico?
Anasazi did this to the walls of the cliffs.
What is builing large stone dwellings; Pueblos?
This river running 2350 miles is a major waterway.
What is the Mississippi?
True or False:
The Amazon has the highest volume of water of any river on Earth.
What is true?
To survive in the Americas, humans did this in small groups.
What is hunted and gathered?
During 300 C.E. – 500 C.E. people on the Yucatan Peninsula built this.
What is cities and city-states?
Hopewell Were called Mound Builders for this reason.
What is mounded dirt for tombs and/or for ceremonies?
True or False:
North America has many coastal and inland plains.
What is true?
The Amazon Basin is located in this region.
What is the northeast?
This is why early humans moved from place to place in the Americas.
What is to find food?
True or False?
Pyramids and palaces along with metal working were not made in Central Mexico during 950 C.E.–1150 C.E.
What is false?
Mississippians settled at the Mississippi River Valley and did this to work full-time as a farmer.
What is be able to produce enough food?
The Great Plains' fertile soils is used for this.
What is farming and raising cattle?
This plains region is located in the south.
What is the Pampas?
This food was the most important.
What is corn?
What is temples and pyramids?
The four early civilizations, Hohokam, Anasazi, Hopewell, and the Mississippians, all had these three things in common.
What is used natural resources, grew corn, and built large structures?