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New Years Review

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A way of living for a group of people. Religion, Language, Food, Clothes, and Shelter is called...

a)

artifacts

b)

geography

c)

culture

d)

climate

2.

An area where people develop similar ways of life or culture is called...

a)

climate region

b)

geography

c)

economics

d)

cultural region

3.

The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them are called...

a)

economics

b)

borders

c)

government

d)

geography

4.

Weather in an area over a long period of time is called...

a)

climate

b)

temperature

c)

hemisphere

d)

precipitation

5.

A map that shows landforms and bodies of water is called a...

a)

population map

b)

physical map

c)

climate map

d)

political map

6.

An organization that makes laws in a country and enforces them is called...

a)

a settlement

b)

a cultural region

c)

a government

d)

a monarchy

7.

How did Natives get to the North American continent?

a)

They sailed here

b)

They flew

c)

Underground tunnels

d)

A frozen land bridge

8.

Everything that surrounds a given area is called...

a)

geography

b)

environment

c)

physical features

d)

resources

9.

When people who move from one part of the world to another part it is called...

a)

migration

b)

settlement

c)

resources

d)

adaptations

10.

Something from nature that is useful to people such as soil, water, vegetation and minerals is called...

a)

artifacts

b)

natural resources

c)

physical features

d)

regions

11.

Which of these DO NOT affect the way of life (culture) for those who live there?

a)

climate

b)

physical features

c)

migration

d)

natural resources

12.

Name this shelter.

a)

chickee

b)

teepee

c)

wigwam

d)

pueblo

13.

Name this shelter.

a)

teepee

b)

wigwam

c)

pueblo

d)

chickee

14.

Name this shelter.

a)

wigwam

b)

teepee

c)

chickee

d)

pueblo

15.

Name this shelter.

a)

pueblo

b)

wigwam

c)

teepee

d)

kiva

16.

A crop grown to sell is called a...

a)

resource

b)

cash crop

c)

artifact

d)

export

17.

In the late 1400s, Europeans looked for new routes to Asia, but found the Americas. What was time period called?

a)

The Columbian Exchange

b)

The Age of Exploration

c)

Migration

d)

The Victory Voyages

18.

What is something that European explorers DID NOT have on their ships?

a)

astrolabes

b)

bibles

c)

coal

d)

compasses

19.

Where were European explorers trying to get to when they found the Americas?

a)

Antartica

b)

Africa

c)

Asia

d)

Australia

20.

When did Columbus find the Americas?

a)

October 12th, 1492

b)

October 12th, 1942

c)

August 3rd, 1492

d)

August 3rd, 1942

21.

Which was NOT one of Columbus's ships?

a)

The Nina

b)

The Pinta

c)

The Mayflower

d)

The Santa Maria

22.

The trade route for goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas was called...

a)

The Age of Exploration

b)

Conquistadors

c)

The Columbian Exchange

d)

Migration

23.

No one knows what happened to this European explorer.

a)

Christopher Columbus

b)

John Cabot

c)

Robert de la Salle

d)

Fransisco Coronado

24.

Who searched for the "Lost Cities of Gold?"

a)

Fransisco Coronado

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Henry Hudson

d)

Hernan Cortes

25.

Who searched for the "Fountain of Youth?"

a)

Henry Hudson

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

Jaques Cartier

d)

Juan Ponce de Leon

26.

A faster sea route from Europe to Asia through the

Americas that explorers were trying to find was called...

a)

The East Indies

b)

The Columbian Exchange

c)

The Bering Strait

d)

The Northwest Passage

27.

Which one of these was NOT one of the first 3 North American colonies?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Roanoke

c)

Massachusettes

d)

Plymouth

28.

Which colony disappeared?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Roanoke

c)

Plymouth

29.

Which colony experienced "The Starving Times?"

a)

Roanoke

b)

Jamestown

c)

Plymouth

30.

Which colony celebrated the first Thanksgiving?

a)

Plymouth

b)

Roanoke

c)

Jamestown

31.

The 13 original colonies was divided into how many regions?

a)

two

b)

three

c)

ten

d)

five

32.

The Puritans settled in which colonial region?

a)

The New England Colonies

b)

The Middle Colonies

c)

The Southern Colonies

33.

Who settled in the Middle colonies?

a)

Puritans

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholics

d)

Native Americans

34.

Who settled the Southern Colonies?

a)

Lord Baltimore

b)

Christopher Columbus

c)

John Rolfe

d)

Jacques Cartier

35.

A person who works to pay off debt or for freedom is called...

a)

a colonist

b)

a settler

c)

an indentured servant

d)

enslaved