Geography of the Americas
This Ocean is located on the Eastern Side of the Americas. It covers one-fifth of the world's entire surface.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Existing naturally or always having lived in a place; native
What is Indigenous?
The land that stretches between what is now the United States and South America.
What is Mesoamerica?
The Aztec civilization was located in this present-day country.
What is Mexico?
To preserve a body by embalming it and wrapping it in cloth.
What is mummify?
This Ocean is located on the Western side of the Americas. It covers almost 63.8 million square miles.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Three of the main groups in North America Indians.
Who are the Northeast, Southeast, and Plains Indians?
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
What is polytheistic/polytheism?
Aztec worshiped hundreds of gods.
What is polytheism?
This Inca civilization is located on this continent.
What is South America?
This mountain range runs through western North America, from Canada to the U.S., and includes famous peaks like Mount Elbert.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Exchanged goods for other goods without the use of money
What is bartered?
A self governing region consisting of a city and surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
The capital city of the Aztec Empire, built on a lake.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This mountain range was home to the Inca Empire.
What are the Andes Mountains?
The Mississippi River flows into this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Cayuga, Erie, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora
What are Iroquoian Speakers?
This was the most common crop for the Mayan people.
What is Maize (corn)?
Aztecs had a hierarchical social structure. (Name four social classes)
What are nobles, commoners, serfs, and slaves
What is the Children of the Sun?
This sea lies between Cuba and South America. Many Islands are popular tourist destinations because of their beautiful beaches and mild tropical climate.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Corn, Beans, and Squash are what farmers depended on.
What are the three sisters?
The Maya were skilled in this subject, which they used to build temples, track the stars, and create their calendar.
What is astronomy (or mathematics)?
The Aztecs built their capital city on this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
Many Inca descendants live in this country.
What is Peru?
These mountains run along the eastern United States and are some of the oldest in North America.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Huts made of an arched framework of poles overlaid with bark, mats, or hides.
What are Wigwams?
Mayan temples were similar to Egyptian structures.
What are pyramids?
a group of countries or a region controlled by one ruler.
What is a empire?
Keeping records by tying knots on colored strings.
What is quipu?
This mountain range runs along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This native tribe lived in Mississippi and Tennessee
Who are the Chickasaw?
What is Mexico?
he capital city of the Aztec Empire, built on a lake.
What is Tenochtitlán?
The Inca people were organized into family units of 10-20 people.
What is ayllus?
This is the location where the Mayan civilization built its cities and ceremonial sites.
What is Yucatan Peninsula?
Hunted, Wore leggings and breech cloths, and fished along rivers.
What are Northeast Indian males?
Mayan farmers created a new method of farming.
What is ''Slash and Burn"?
The Aztecs created these man-made islands to grow crops in Lake Texcoco.
What are chinampas (floating gardens)?
The Inca used this farming method on steep mountain slopes.
What is terrace farming?
The longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon river?
This native tribe occupied the Florida territory.
Who are the Seminole Indians?
This writing system used symbols or glyphs to record their history and language.
What are hieroglyphics (or glyphs)?
This Spanish conquistador led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
Head of the Inca government.
Who is Emperor Sara Inca?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is an Isthmus?
Conical-shaped structures constructed of woods poles and buffalo skins.
What are Teepees?
The Maya developed this type of calendar, which helped track time and agricultural cycles.
What is a solar calendar (or 365-day calendar)?
The Aztecs believed they had to offer this to please their gods and keep the universe in balance.
What is human sacrifice?
This Spanish conquistador took down the Inca empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?