WorksheetsGeography and History Quiz
Total questions: 141
Worksheet time: 1hrs 29mins
What is the third largest continent?
Name the highest peak in North America.
Mount Everest
Mount McKinley
What is the world’s largest bay?
Bay of Fundy
Hudson Bay
Name the world’s largest gulf.
Gulf of Alaska
The most famous Indians who lived in Mexico.
Maya
Delaware
Atacama
Aztecs
The most famous South American Indians.
Incas
The Indians of Central America.
Maya
Cherokee
Shawnee
Delaware
One of America’s greatest athletes.
Will Rogers
Jim Thorpe
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
“America’s Greatest Storyteller.”
Henry Alline
Henry Hudson
David George
Will Rogers
A Viking from Norway who founded the first European settlement in Greenland.
Erik the Red
Christopher Columbus
Leif Ericson
Joseph Brant
A type of sea bird that migrates farther than any other bird.
A type of North American reindeer.
A little rodent that look like fat, round mice.
lemmings
Identify the animal : "King of the birds."
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Identify the animal from its description: "White-headed" bird.
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Raven
Pigeon
What is a large mass of ice that flows slowly over land?
Name the snow house usually built for temporary shelter while traveling.
What are the islands called that lie largely within the Arctic Circle, including Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island?
Canadian Arctic Islands
Name the world’s largest bay.
(a)
What is the largest inland seaway in the world?
St. Lawrence Seaway
Name the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.
Great Lakes - Lake Superior is the larget
What beautiful waterfalls are shared by the U.S. and Canada?
Name the largest lake entirely within Canada. It’s also the world’s seventh largest freshwater lake.
Name the source of the Mackenzie River. It’s the ninth largest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Canada’s longest river?
Name the bay famous for its extremely high tides.
What is Canada’s highest peak?
A viking that discovered the North American continent
The first modern explorer to discover the New World.
John Cabot
Fredrick Banting
the first modern explorer to reach the North-American mainland
John Cabot
Captain Cook
Captain vancouver
Henry hudson
This explorer gave France a claim to Canada and opened the way for a vaulable fur trade between the French and Indians.
A french explorer who helped build the first French settlement in the New World called Quebec.
who discovered the hudson bay and had it named after him?
(a)
Who were the two English sea captains who explored and mapped the Pacific coast?
Who wrote Anne of Green Gables?
Isabel Kuhn
Who was the missionary from Virginia to the black community in Nova Scotia.
John Smith
David George
James Evans
James Robertson
Who am I? The "apostle of Nova Scotia."
Henry Aline
Lucy Montgomery
Henry Hudson
What was a pioneer missionary to the Indians of Ontario and Manitoba.
John Smith
James Evans
Who served as the superintendent of Presbyterian Missions for Manitoba and the Northwest.
James Robertson
Co-discoverers of insulin for diabetes. Fredrick Banting and (a)
Who were the two famous Canadian missionaries to China.
Samuel Champlain and John Stott
David Livingstone and Anna Lee
Jonathan Goforth and Isoabel Kuhn
Who am I? Fundamentalist pastor known for his defense of the Bible against liberalism.
T.T. Shields
Fredrick Banting
Charles best
Jonathon goforth
The supposed sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
What is the fourth largest country in the world?
(a)
Name the system of low mountain ranges in eastern North America extending nearly 2,000 miles from Canada to Alabama.
(a)
Name the mountain pass used by settlers on their way west.
(a)
What is the largest known underground cave system in the world?
(a)
Which hilly, rolling land lies between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
(a)
Name the world’s second largest body of water which is also the world’s saltiest ocean.
(a)
Define the term "wampum."
Beads made from shells that are used for gifts or as friendship tokens
Deer meat
pictures of colonists
animal used for clothing and rugs; used its grease to grease peoples hair
A low marshy area of tall grasses and swamps
(a)
The name for John Elliot's village of christian indians
(a)
Sequoya invented a language using symbols that stood for syllables.
(a)
One of the earliest cultures in the Eastern Woodlands; famous for their burial mounds.
(a)
A group Eastern Woodland Indians who traditionally lived in longhouses.
Iroquois
What is the largest Indian tribe in the eastern U.S.
Iroquois Nation
Identify the Indian group: "man-eaters"; the easternmost tribe of the League of Five Nations.
(a)
Identify the Indian group: a tribe of Iroquois not in the League.
(a)
Identify the Indian group: "southerners"; Indians of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana.
(a)
Identify the Indian group: large and powerful nation who lived in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.
(a)
Identify the Indian group: "runaway"; a mixture of Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, and runaway slaves.
seminoles
creeks
Shawnees
Identify the Indian group: Indians who met the Pilgrims.
(a)
Identify the Indian group: one of the most civilized tribes; kept a pictorial chronicle of their history and traditions.
(a)
Who am I: first Indian to greet the Pilgrims.
John Cabot
Samoset
Massasoit
Sequoya
"Apostle to the Indians"; first Bible printed in America was his translation of an Indian language.
Who am I: Swedish Lutheran missionary who translated some of Martin Luther’s catechism into the Delaware language.
(a)
Who was the founder of Rhode Island and of America’s first Baptist church.
Tattamy
David Brainerd
Who was the young missionary who worked tirelessly among the Indians in spite of his poor health.
Who am I: David Brainerd’s Indian interpreter.
(a)
Who was the Mohawk chief who helped translate parts of the Bible into the Mohawk language.
Massasoit
Who was the Shawnee chief who fought to keep all white men out of Indian territory.
Who was the Cherokee who invented a written language for his people.
What is the Plains Indians' favorite animal for hunting and eating.
Bison
What is the longest river in the U.S. and chief tributary of the Mississippi?
What are the two peninsulas guarding the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico?
Who is the Sioux medicine man and chief, winner of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who was the U.S. army general who lost the Battle of Little Bighorn.
General George Custer
Plains Indians named for their black moccasins.
(a)
Plains Indians who formed a confederacy and spread all across the northern plains; name means 'friends' or 'allies.'
The name given to the Dakota meaning 'snakes in the grass.'
Shien
Ojibwa
Plains Indians once skilled in pottery making and cloth weaving.
Dakota
Cheyenne
Blackfoot
Comanches
The record of what has happened to mankind.
(a)
The study of the Earth.
(a)
Part of the New World, that includes that continents of North America, South America, and many islands in the Caribbean Sea.
(a)
A movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to another.
(a)
The narrow body of water that links the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific's Bering Strait and separated Russia from Alaska.
(a)
A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
A (a) is a setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive.
A (a) is a people groups unique way of life.
Choose 3: What kinds of animals did the American Indians hunt and eat?
guinea pigs
buffalo
rabbits
wolves
The North Pole and the surrounding area lie within the (a) .
Another name for the northern lights?
What animal is important to the people of the Arctic for food, warmth, and light?
Fur seal
Polar Bear
What two terms are used for the vast forest that covers much of northern Canada and Alaska?
taiga
evergreen forest
boreal forest
tundra
Indians used paper birch for canoes and baskets.
What animal has done the most to shape the landscape of North America?
What are the people of northern Alaska called?
Iñupiat
Eskimos
What are the people of Greenland and Arctic Canada called?
Who was the famous missionary who wentto the Canadian Inuits and their neighbors?
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Capt. Vancouver
Samuel de Champlain
James Robertson
A treeless Arctic plains north of the timberline is called the (a) .
What is another name used for ground that is permanently frozen?
(a)
The smallest and coldest ocean on the Earth.
A one man boat constructed of sealskin stretched over a frame.
(a)
What is a harpoon?
What is a pemmican?
A piece of a glacier that has broken off into the sea
(a)
A long, hooded jacket made of fur
(a)
A tree that produces cones.
Trees that keep their leaves all year long.
The most numerous and varied trees in the world.
broadleaf trees
pinhead trees
evergreen tress
deciduous trees
Type of tree that lose their leaves in the fall.
What do you call the point beyond which trees cannot grow?
timberline
The first French settlement in North America was called
New France
Canada's oldest business
(a)
Define the term ''venison''
Beads made from shells that are used for gifts or as friendship tokens
Deer meat
pictures of colonists
animal used for clothing and rugs; used its grease to grease peoples hair
American colonists that moved up to Canada during the French and Indian war because they did not feel they should fight against their king.
What are acadians?
Acadians are indian people of Canada.
Acadians are descendants of French who refused to pledge their loyalty to the British.
This structure is the world's second tallest freestanding structure in Canada.
Skyline Tower
a period in the late 1890s when thousands of people traveled to the Yukon Territory in Canada to search for gold
The only public highway above the Arctic Circle that is open year round
Dempster Highway
The nickname given to Canada's world famous police force
Canada's oldest large city which is the only walled city.
Canada's second largest city and has one of the worlds largest inland ports.
Canada's capital and host the Tulip Festival
Canada's largest city
Canada's leading grain market and the "gateway to the west"
Polar Bear capital of the World
Yellowknife
Norway
Iceland
Churchill
Canada's Gateway to the Pacific
Canada's two official languages
Canadian government type
constitutional monarchy
Canada's national symbol
Canada's patriotic song
Fish are one of Canada's most important natural resources
A group of Eastern Woodland Indians who traditionally lived in longhouses.
The source of the Mississippi River
The largest island of the West Indies
An important Atlantic current whose source is the Gulf of Mexico
What animal lived in vast underground "towns" that stretched over the prairies?
What did the Sioux Indians call the Ozarks?
Black Hills
Mesabi Range
Badlands
A huge monument with carvings of the faces of multiple presidents.
An area in South Dakota with irregular cliffs and colorful hills.
Badlands