US Geography
The West, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest.
What are the five regions of the United States
The height of the land in relation to sea level.
What is elevation?
A home built of snow and ice made by the Native American Aleut and Inuit tribes.
What is an Igloo?
Mrs. Ramsay's favorite animal.
What are dinosaurs?
The day and month Columbus landed in the Americas.
What is October 1492?
What are latitude and longitude lines?
The use of canals, ditches, or piper to move water.
What is irrigation?
A house made of buffalo skins used by Plains Native Americans.
What is a tepee?
The names of Mrs. Ramsay's cats.
Who are Chloe and Tilly?
The ship originally headed for Virginia who were blown off course and landed in what is now Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower?
A bowl-shaped area surrounded by higher land.
Resources that can be made again by people or nature. (wind, water, trees, and light)
What are renewable resources?
Beads made of seashells that can be traded or, in the case of Hiawatha, put together to send a message.
What is wampum?
The first name of Mrs. Ramsay's husband.
Who is Derek?
The European group who reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Who are the Vikings?
The Five Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
This power plant is an example of people modifying their environment to serve them better.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This Native American tribe built homes called "hogans?"
Who are the Navajo?
The year Mrs. Ramsay graduated high school.
What is May of 2016?
The man who originally set up the colony that became Virginia.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
The Ohio and Missouri River are tributaries of what river?
What is the Mississippi River?
An area that connects people and resources
What is a crossroads?
The Navajo poet laureate who wrote poetry based on her experience growing up Navajo.
Who is Luci Tapahonso?
What Mrs. Ramsay's husband does for a living.
What is Director of Environmental Health and Safety?
The Spanish conquistador took control of the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?