Midterm Vocabulary Review

A narrow strip of land

• Iroquois

• isthmus

• middle passage

• Sons of Liberty

The study of people, their environments, and their resources

• tributary

• Inca

• culture

• geography

Land surrounded by water on three sides

• peninsula

• tributary

• isthmus

• aqueduct

The average weather of a place over 20 to 30 years

• colony

• latitude

• climate

• longitude

A stream or smaller river that flows into a bigger river

• tributary

• peninsula

• isthmus

• clomate

The mountain ridge that separates river system slowing toward opposite sides of a continent

• triangular trade

• longitude

• Puritan

• continental divide

Measures distance East and West of the Prime Meridian

• equator

• latitude

• longitude

• Prime Meridan

Measures distance North and South of the Equator

• latitude

• equator

• longitude

• Prime Merdian

Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora

• Iroquois

• Inca

• Aztec

• Maya

The representative assembly in England

• President

• Queen Elizabeth

• Congress

• Parliament