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WorksheetsREVIEW ONE: GEO, NATIVE, EXPLORATION
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 40mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why did the northwest region live in plank houses?
a)
They lived in forests where there were many trees.
b)
They lived in the desert.
c)
They stole wood from other indians.
d)
They actually lived in tipis.
2.
Why did the northwest region eat many fish?
a)
They lived near streams and rivers.
b)
They rode their horses to the Atlantic Ocean.
c)
They went fishing in Coligny.
d)
They northwest region did not eat fish
3.
Which region do you see in the picture? (Think of Never Eat Soggy Waffles!)
a)
Southwest
b)
Great Basin
c)
Plains
d)
Northwest
4.
What is a travois?
a)
A sled pulled by dogs or horses in the South West.
b)
Food the South West ate
c)
Spirits
d)
The homes the South West lived in
5.
Which region is pictured? (remember Never Eat Soggy Waffles!)
a)
Plains
b)
North West
c)
South West
d)
Great Basin
6.
The Plains region were travelers who moved from place to place. What vocabulary term would they fall under?
a)
Nomads
b)
Wigwams
c)
Totem Poles
d)
Game
7.
Since the plains region were nomads, which type of housing did they live in?
a)
Tipi
b)
Adobe
c)
Long Houses
d)
Wigwam
8.
The Plains region had flat and grassy land. Which animal do you think they hunted most based on their geography?
a)
Fish
b)
Buffalo
c)
Squirrles
d)
Mountain Lions
9.
Based on the name of the Woodlands region, what do you think their houses were made out of?
a)
Clay
b)
Dirt
c)
Wood
d)
Bricks
10.
Which region had a very advanced government similar to the U.S. government?
a)
Plains
b)
Woodlands
c)
Great Basin
d)
North West
11.
Which region is colored in the picture?
a)
Woodlands
b)
Plains
c)
Great Basin
d)
North West
12.
Which word means land set aside for Native Americans
a)
Reservaton
b)
Pueblo
c)
Travois
d)
Mesa
13.
Which word means a long period without water
a)
Drought
b)
Powwow
c)
Potlatch
d)
Shaman
14.
Which word means more than enough?
a)
Surplus
b)
Pueblo
c)
Shaman
d)
Ceremony
15.
Which word means a portable house made of buffalo skin, used for hunting trips?
a)
Tepee
b)
Longhouse
c)
Igloo
d)
Lodge
16.
Which word means a party where the host gives gifts to the guests?
a)
Potlatch
b)
Powwow
c)
Shaman
d)
Ceremony
17.
Which word means an activity done for a special purpose?
a)
Ceremony
b)
Drought
c)
Potlatch
d)
Powwow
18.
Which of the following were known as the Cliff Dwellers?
a)
Anasazi
b)
Inuit
c)
Mound Builders
d)
Eastern Woodlands
19.
Which of the following invented the kayak?
a)
Inuit
b)
Anasazi
c)
Mound Builders
d)
Inca
20.
Who made the decisions in the Iroquois League?
a)
The Great Council
b)
Older men
c)
Older women
d)
An outside tribe
21.
What objects were used by the people of the Northwest Coast to represent a person's ancestors and show power and wealth?
a)
Totem poles
b)
Canoes
c)
Beaded clothing
d)
Horses
22.
A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.
a)
Joint-stock company
b)
Vasco de Gama
c)
Amerigo Vespucci
d)
Middle Passage
23.
A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.
a)
Prince Henry
b)
Atlantic Slave Trade
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Pizarro
24.
(16th-19th centuries) Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to labor in the Americas in mines and plantations.
a)
Favorable balance of trade
b)
Atlantic Slave Trade
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Vasco de Gaman
25.
Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.
a)
Colonies
b)
Cortes
c)
Joint-stock
d)
Conquistadors
26.
Territories that are controlled by other countries. The territory is often settled by people from the controlling countries.
a)
Cortes
b)
Caravel
c)
Exploration
d)
Colonies
27.
Segment of the forced journey that captured Africans made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey.
a)
Caravel
b)
Pizarro
c)
Triangular Trade
d)
Middle Passage
28.
(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.
a)
French and Indian War
b)
Prince Henry
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Treaty of Tordesillas
29.
He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
a)
Vasco de Gama
b)
Donald Trump
c)
Cortes
d)
Christopher Columbus
30.
The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.
a)
Columbian Exchange
b)
Middle Passage
c)
Capitalism
d)
Colonization
31.
To travel for the purpose of discovery from 1450-1600
a)
Colonization
b)
Middle Passage
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Exploration
32.
What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?
a)
Spain
b)
England
c)
Italy
d)
Portugal
33.
Why didn't people travel during the Middle Ages?
a)
It wasn't safe to travel.
b)
Europeans didn't know what existed outside their lands.
c)
Little learning prevented people's curiosity of finding new ways of doing things.
d)
All of these options
34.
How did the printing press impact exploration?
a)
It allowed people to travel against the wind.
b)
It allowed people to take pictures of the journeys they had traveled
c)
It made books more expensive
d)
The printing press allowed more people to learn to read and want to explore.
35.
What can be defined as a place or someone that produces everything they need?
a)
Astrolabe
b)
Columbian Exchange
c)
self-sufficient
d)
interdependent
36.
Which is not one of the "3 G's?"
a)
God
b)
Gold
c)
Glory
d)
Galantry
37.
What is the benefit of the ship in this picture?
a)
It allowed explorers to be able to sail into the wind
b)
It always pointed North
c)
It could travel faster than all other ships
d)
It had more cargo room
38.
Which of these groups treated Native Americans harshly?
a)
Spanish
b)
French
c)
Vikings
39.
What's the historical significance of the beaver during the Age of Exploration?
a)
Native Americans suffered as they lost the beaver as a source of food
b)
French explorers traded heavily with Native Americans for beaver hides to make money
c)
Spaniards killed off much of the beaver population for damaging buildings around their colonies
d)
Beavers were brought over to the New World where they took over local waterways
40.
What is the significance of the Columbian Exchange?
a)
It brought many new ways of life to the Old and New Worlds
b)
The plants brought to the Old World didn't survive there
c)
Many Native Americans would move to Europe for a better way of life
d)
Native Americans became very wealthy off the trade with Europeans
41.
The study of the earth, its features and its people is called
a)
Environment
b)
Cartography
c)
Geography
d)
Schoolology
42.
A political map shows you.....
a)
politicians in the area
b)
political parties
c)
country boundaries
d)
the states that Trump said voted illegally
43.
Which map would you use if you are not interested in humans, only the shape of the earth through rivers and mountains?
a)
political
b)
physical
c)
road
d)
historical
44.
An atlas is ........
a)
a book of facts
b)
a book of maps
c)
a book of sacred scrolls
d)
a superhero
45.
Latitude measures......
a)
East and West of the Prime Meridian
b)
North or South of the Equator
c)
East or West of the Equator
d)
North or South of the Prime Meridian
46.
Longitude measures
a)
East or West of the Prime Meridian
b)
North or South of the Equator
c)
East or West of the Equator
d)
North or South of the Prime Meridian
47.
The Pacific Ocean is located at which #?
a)
9
b)
10
c)
11
d)
12
48.
Asia is located at #?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
49.
What body of water is located at #12?
a)
Arctic Ocean
b)
Southern Ocean
c)
Atlantic Ocean
d)
Susquehanna River
50.
What body of water is located at #12?
a)
Arctic Ocean
b)
Southern Ocean
c)
Atlantic Ocean
d)
Susquehanna River
51.
The large, uninhabited continent is located at #?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
52.
The large, uninhabited continent is located at #?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
53.
The northernmost part of the Earth.
a)
South Pole
b)
North Pole
c)
Equator
d)
Prime Meridian
54.
Shows the relationship between the distances on a map and real distances.
a)
map key (legend)
b)
compass rose
c)
scale
d)
global grid
55.
Directions between the main directions, such as northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
a)
lines of latitude
b)
Cardinal directions
c)
Intermediate directions
d)
lines of longitude
56.
Explains what the symbols on a map stand for.
a)
Map legend (key)
b)
scale
c)
compass rose
d)
global grid
57.
Imaginary lines that go around the globe between the North Pole and the South Pole. (They are also called meridians).
a)
Lines of Latitude
b)
Equator
c)
Prime Meridian
d)
Lines of Longitude
58.
How people, goods, and ideas move to and from a place.
a)
location
b)
human environment interaction
c)
movement
d)
place
e)
region
59.
The imaginary line that divides the globe/world into the Eastern Hemisphere & Western Hemispheres.
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian
60.
How a place affects the people living there and how people
living there affect the place.
a)
human environment interaction
b)
place
c)
location
d)
region
e)
movement
61.
Imaginary lines which run east and west around the globe. They are parallel to the Equator.
a)
equator
b)
lines of latitude
c)
prime meridian
d)
lines of longitude
62.
The southernmost point of the Earth.
a)
North pole
b)
South pole
63.
The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on a map.
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
global grid
d)
special purpose map
64.
Describes the human and physical characteristics there.
a)
place
b)
location
c)
movement
d)
region
e)
human environment interaction
65.
The imaginary line that divides the globe/world into the Northern & Southern Hemispheres.
a)
Equator
b)
Prime Meridian
c)
Lines of Longitude
d)
Lines of Latitude
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