The First Americans and the Land They Found

Question 1

Describe history

Answer 1

The record of what has happened to mankind

Question 2

Describe geography

Answer 2

Study of the earth

Question 3

The study of animals and their habitats as well as people and their cultures is also part of..

Answer 3

Geography

Question 4

What is the Western Hemisphere called?

Answer 4

The New World

Question 5

What are the two continents of the new world?

Answer 5

North and South America

Question 6

God caused the people of the world to speak different languages through…

Answer 6

The tower of Babel

Question 7

A movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another

Answer 7

Migration

Question 8

How did the Indians get to America?

Answer 8

They PROBABLY walked over from Asia

Question 9

What is the Bering Strait?

Answer 9

The narrow body of water that separates Russia from Alaska

Question 10

A narrow body of water that connects 2 larger bodies of water

Answer 10

A strait

Question 11

Wasn’t the Bering strait once dry land?

Answer 11

Yes!

Question 12

North America and Africa might have once been connected (T or F and why?)

Answer 12

False,it was South America and Africa

Question 13

What did the name of Noah’s great-great-great grandson mean? And what was his name?

Answer 13

His name was Peleg and it meant “divided”

Question 14

The setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive

Answer 14

Habitat

Question 15

What race spread out the most?

Answer 15

Native Americans

Question 16

What is culture? (Hint:only 3 words)

Answer 16

Way of life

Question 17

What is the 3rd largest continent?

Answer 17

North America

Question 18

(OPTIONAL) Can you name the continents in order from largest to smallest?

Answer 18

Asia,Africa,North America,South America,Antarctica,Europe and Australia

Question 19

What isthmus connects North and South America?

Answer 19

Isthmus of Panama

Question 20

Name the highest peak in North America

Answer 20

Mt. McKinley

Question 21

The world’s largest bay

Answer 21

Hudson Bay

Question 22

The world’s largest gulf

Answer 22

Gulf of Mexico

Question 23

The world’s largest island

Answer 23

Greenland

Question 24

Greenland is almost completely covered by grass (T or f and why?)

Answer 24

False,it’s almost completely covered by ice. The name is misleading!

Question 25

What is Rio Grand in English?

Answer 25

“Large river”

Question 26

The most famous Indians who lived in Mexico

Answer 26

Aztecs

Question 27

Central America is part of North America (T or F and why?)

Answer 27

True

Question 28

The narrow bridge of land that connects North and South America (Hint:NOT an isthmus!)

Answer 28

Central America

Question 29

Where did the Maya Indians make their homes?

Answer 29

In Central America

Question 30

2000 mile-long chain of mountainous islands in the Caribbean Sea

Answer 30

West Indies

Question 31

Who called the land he discovered the indies because he thought it was part of the indies islands of Asia? (Hint: he always confused the land he found!)

Answer 31

Columbus

Question 32

Why did Columbus call the native Americans “Indians”?

Answer 32

He thought he was in the indies of Asia

Question 33

4th largest continent

Answer 33

South America

Question 34

Where does most of the land lie in in South America?

Answer 34

Within the tropics

Question 35

2nd longest river (hint:in South America)

Answer 35

Amazon River

Question 36

One of the direst places on earth in South America

Answer 36

Atacama Desert

Question 37

Most famous South American Indians (hint: sounds close to the word “ink”)

Answer 37

Incas

Question 38

What is an archipelago?

Answer 38

A group of islands

Question 39

What kind of land formation Is Tierra del Fuego?

Answer 39

An archipelago

Question 40

What is the very bottom of South America? (Hint:it’s shaped like a horn!)

Answer 40

Cape Horn

Question 41

What strait is at the bottom section of South America?

Answer 41

Strait of Magellan

Question 42

What is a type of light axe that the Indians used? (Hint:sounds like a crazy hairstyle)

Answer 42

Tomahawk

Question 43

What is maize?

Answer 43

Corn

Question 44

What is maize?

Answer 44

Corn

Question 45

Name a Native American crop

Answer 45

Corn / peanuts / potatoes / squash / tomatoes / peppers

Question 46

Leather coverings that protect the legs

Answer 46

Leggings

Question 47

Describe a tepee

Answer 47

Animal hide was put around poles to make a kind of cone

Question 48

What were other homes the Indians made other than tepees?

Answer 48

Wigwams and hogans

Question 49

What did the Indian men practice for hunting?

Answer 49

Archery

Question 50

We’re Indians atheists?

Answer 50

No! But they worshipped the wrong gods!

Question 51

One of America’s greatest athletes (hint:he was Indian)

Answer 51

Jim Thorpe

Question 52

This man was part Indian and he was titled “America Greatest Storyteller”

Answer 52

Will Roger’s

Question 53

Fill in the blank from one of Will Roger’s quotes “My ancestors didn’t come over on the M________,but they met the boat.”

Answer 53

Mayflower