Map skills and Chapter 1

Question 1

What did the Indians use to travel through the snow?

Accepted Answer

toboggan

Question 2

What line of latitude does the map show?

Accepted Answer

Equator

Question 3

What line of latitude does the map show?

Accepted Answer

Tropic of Cancer

Question 4

What is the movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another?

Accepted Answer

migration

Question 5

What hemisphere includes North America, Central America, and South America?

Accepted Answer

Western

Question 6

What is the world's largest island?

Accepted Answer

Greenland

Question 7

What is the second longest river in the world?

Accepted Answer

Amazon River

Question 8

What type of food is maize?

Accepted Answer

corn

Question 9

What is the narrow body of water that links the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea?

Accepted Answer

Bering Strait

Question 10

What continent has the widest variety of animals?

Accepted Answer

South America

Question 11

What is the study of the earth?

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 12

What is the world's largest Bay?

Accepted Answer

Hudson Bay

Question 13

What is a setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive?

Accepted Answer

habitat

Question 14

What is a type of light axe?

Accepted Answer

tomahawk

Question 15

What is a dome shaped building covered with leaves and bark?

Accepted Answer

wigwam

Question 16

What is a narrow bridge of land that connects North America to South America?

Accepted Answer

Central America

Question 17

What line of longitude does the map show?

Accepted Answer

Prime Meridian

Question 18

What is the third largest continent?

Accepted Answer

North America

Question 19

What person, of Indian descent, was one of America's greatest athletes?

Accepted Answer

Jim Thorpe

Question 20

The Baja Peninsula and the Yucatan Peninsula are part of what country?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 21

What is one of the driest places on earth?

Accepted Answer

Atacama Desert

Question 22

What line of latitude does the map show?

Accepted Answer

Tropic of Capricorn

Question 23

What is the record of what has happened to mankind?

Accepted Answer

History

Question 24

What is the high mountain range in South America?

Accepted Answer

Andes Mountains

Question 25

What is a 2000 mile long chain of mountainous islands in the Caribbean Sea?

Accepted Answer

West Indies

Question 26

What group of Indians made their home in Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Aztecs

Question 27

What person, of Indian descent, has been called "America's Greatest Storyteller"?

Accepted Answer

Will Rogers

Question 28

What group of Indians settled in South Amerida?

Accepted Answer

Inca Indians

Question 29

An Indian house made of buffalo hides sewn together and stretched over a frame is called what?

Accepted Answer

tepee

Question 30

What is North America's largest river?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi River

Question 31

What game is played by shooting with bows and arrows?

Accepted Answer

archery

Question 32

What is a circular dwelling made with logs and mud?

Accepted Answer

Hogan

Question 33

What group of Indians made their home in Central America?

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 34

What is the southernmost point in the America's?

Accepted Answer

Cape Horn

Question 35

What is a way of life?

Accepted Answer

culture

Question 36

What 2 countries does the Bering Striat separate?

Accepted Answer

Russia and Alaska

Question 37

What is the highest peak in North America?

Accepted Answer

Mt. McKinley

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