North America Quiz

What is a cordillera?

• A type of animal

• A large lake

• A long chain of Mountain ranges

• A bird

What are the three major desert regions of North America?

• Antarctic Desert, Artic Desert, Russian Artic

• The Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahua deserts

• Arabian, Gobi, Kalahari

• Syrian, Great Basin, Karakum

Name three animal species that live in deserts.

• Cows, Ducks, Donkeys

• Deer, Hogs, Chickens

• Sharks, Squids, Minnows

• Roadrunner, Gila monster, rattlesnake

How was the soil of the Great Plains formed?

• Retreating glaciers and their streams of melted ice left sediment on the land during the last glacial period (about 18,000 years ago)

• It was dropped off by construction company

• It was always there

• It was created by a volcano

What is the largest wetland system in the United States?

• Lake Ontario

• Chattahoochee River

• The Florida Everglades

• Louisiana Swamp

Before European contact, where did the Suquamish people usually go during the warm season?

• On vacation

• They went to temporary camps to harvest food through hunting, fishing, and gathering.

• They would move south to California

• They would go swimming.

What skills allowed Puget Sound Indians to spend their winter months on social gatherings and other activities, rather than on obtaining food?

• They could make jackets.

• They would fast to save food.

• They would raid other tribes.

• Effective methods of food preservation and success in trade

What was the major traditional form of transportation for the Suquamish?

• steamboat

• Horse

• The dugout canoe

• train

By what year did slaves almost entirely replace indentured servants on tobacco plantations?

• 1700

• 1800

• 1600

• 1900

How many enslaved Africans were there by 1770?

• 500,000

• 462,000

• 150,000

• 330,000