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US and World Geography
States and Regions
Native Americans
Explorers
America's Beginnings
100
People and their surroundings interact or effect each other. People's activities may modify, or change, the environment. The environment may affect people, requiring them to adapt, or adjust, to their surroundings. (page I-3)
What is Human-Environment Interactions ?
100
Mountain region running north to south in the Eastern United States. (p. 7)
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
One of the earliest civilizations in the Americas who ruled what is now southern Mexico from 1500 B.C. to A.D. 300. (p. 49)
Who is the Olmec civilization?
100
Marco Polo, an Italian trader in the 1400s traveled to Asia to buy and sell these Asian goods. (p.59)
What are silks and spices?
100
Groups of people with some forms of government, religion, and learning. (p. 48)
What is a civilization?
200
Everything on earth has a place it can be found. (page I-3)
What is location?
200
Mountains that stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. (p. 7)
What are the Rocky Mountains?
200
Early people who possibly crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America (p. 48)
Who are ancestors (early family members) to American Indians?
200
The science of planning and following a route. (p. 60)
What is navigation?
200
1492, he sailed across the ocean blue.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
300
Physical features and human features make every ___ on earth unique. (page I-3)
What is place?
300
This region covered a huge area from the Mississippi River Valley to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Texas (p. 7)
What is the Great Plains?
300
Ancient group who lived in the area where present-day states of Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico meet. (p. 49)
Who are the Ancient Puebloans?
300
A trip taken with the goal of exploring (p.60)
What is an expedition?
300
Location of the people that Columbus called Indians (p. 61)
What is an island in the Caribbean Sea? Guanahani
400
Areas on Earth that have similarities or features that make them different from other places are called: (page I-3)
What are regions?
400
Imaginary line that divides the major river systems of North America. Rivers to the east flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Rivers to the west flow to the Pacific Ocean. (p. 8)
What is The Continental Divide?
400
In the Eastern Woodlands, the northeast people hunted and gathered food, while those further south grew corn, beans, squash and other plants. They formed two language groups who were: (p. 52)
What are the Algonquian and the Iroquoian?
400
When setting out in the Atlantic Ocean, these two continents lay between Europe and Asia (p. 61)
What are North America and South America?
400
Things given to the king and queen of Spain in exchange for more paid expeditions (p.61)
What are gold, animals, plants, and people?
500
Every day people bring ideas and goods from one place to another, influencing ideas, culture and the way of life. (page I-3)
What is the movement of goods and ideas?
500
Something found in nature that people can use. (p. 10)
What are natural resources?
500
Large round earth lodges, wigwams, tepees, pueblos and longhouses were examples of (p. 52, 53, 54, 55...)
What are homes of American Indians?
500
Who were teachers of religion sent by Spain to America? (p. 62)
What were missionaries?
500
To find more riches, start settlements and spread the Catholic Religion (p.61)
What are expectations of Christopher Columbus?