New World History, Chp 1-2

Sir Wilfred Grenfell was a famous English missionary...

Trees that do not lose their leaves are called evergreens...

The Mayas lived in Central America and had an advanced early civilization...

The narrow body of water that separates Russia from Alaska

1 of America's greatest athletes...

The movement of a group of people or animals from one place to another...

A large mass of ice that flows slowly over land...

The timberline is the point beyond which no trees can grow

The oldest and largest trees in the world...

A long, hooded jacket made of various furs is a ...

North America is the third largest continent...

The study of the earth...

The highest peak in North America is Mt. McKinley

The vast evergreen forest covering much of Canada and parts of Alaska

The record of what has happened to mankind...

The treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline...

The Gulf of Mexico is the world's largest gulf

The most famous Indians who lived in Mexico were the...

The area between the North Pole and the northern timberline...

A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water...

The beaver is the animal that most shaped the landscape of North America...

The world's largest bay is Pittsburgh Bay...

The world's largest island...

The region containing North & South America

The setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive...

Habitat is the way of life for a group of people...

Smallest and coldest ocean...

The name of ground that is permanently frozen...

People who live in Greenland or the Canadian Arctic call themselves...