Vocabulary
Leaving Home/
Moving West
A world of wagons/
Life on the trail
New Communities
Ch. 5-6
100

A written record of what someone has done or thought each day.

What is a diary?

100
Something found in nature that people use.
What is a natural resource?
100
The Anasazi lived in this part of the country.
What are the Four Corners?
100
The name of the colony in Southeast Virginia by Chesapeake Bay.
What is Jamestown?
200

A flat or rolling land covered with tall grasses.

What is a prairie?

200
Land next to an ocean.
What is a coast?
200
One Anasazi community that means "Green Table."
What is Mesa Verde?
200
A placed ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
300
The three types of communities.
What are urban, suburban, and rural?
300
Land that has water on all sides BUT one.
What is a peninsula?
300
A deep river valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
400
A large area of flat land.
What is a plain?
400
The people who first lived in America.
Who are Native Americans?
400
The steep face of a rock.
What is a cliff?
500
Land that is raised above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
500
The way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
500
Objects left behind by a group of people. (examples include pottery, clothing, and tools.)
What are artifacts?