History Ch. 1 & 2 Study guide

What is the smallest, coldest ocean?

What is the name of the area between the North Pole and the northern timberline called?

Who were the most famous Indians who lived in Mexico?

What is the name of the world’s largest island?

What is the name of the ground that is permanently frozen?

What animal has shaped the landscape of North America more than any other animal?

What continent is the 3rd largest?

What is the record of what has happened to mankind?

What is the world’s largest bay?

What is a large mass of ice that flows slowly over land?

Who are the most famous Indians of South America?

What is the study of the earth?

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

Who is known as America’s Greatest Storyteller?

What are trees that don’t lose their leaves called?

What is the highest peak in North America?

What are the treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline called?

What do people who live in Greenland or the Canadian Arctic call themselves?

What is the vast evergreen forest region covering much of Canada and parts of Alaska?

What people group of Central America had one of the most advanced early civilizations of the Western Hemisphere?

What is a long, hooded jacket made of different types of fur called?

Who was one of America’s greatest athletes?

What narrow body of water separates Russia from Alaska?

Who was the famous English missionary to the Canadian Inuits and their neighbors?

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

What are the oldest and largest trees in the world?

What is the world’s largest gulf?

What region contains North and South America?

What is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water?

What is the point beyond which no trees can grow?

What is the “way of life” of a group of people?