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Social Studies
Lessons 1-4
Question | Answer |
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New Jersey in on the ______________ of North America. | continent |
If you describe New Jersey by its location in relation to other places that is called_____________________ | relative location |
New Jersey is divided into _______________ _____________, or those formed by nature. | physical characteristics |
The state's largest natural region is ______________________ | Atlantic Coastal Plain |
The huge sheets of ice that formed New Jersey's regions are called ___________________________ | glaciers |
The thick, heavy ice of glaciers caused ___________________ as they scraped across the land. | erosion |
The glaciers left behind thick layers of ___________ in some regions. | till |
Rich soil that is left behind by water is called ________________ | silt |
The kind of weather that a place has over a long period of time is called ___________________________ | climate |
Water that falls to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet or hail is called ____________________________ | precipitation |
A resource that people are able to reuse or replace is called a ______________________ ___________________ | renewable resource |
The earliest people of North America were called ____________________ ____________________ | Paleo-Indians |
Native Americans lived and worked together and traveled in _________________________ | bands |
The Native Americans from long ago are the _______________________________ of today's Native Americans. | ancestors |
People who moved from place to place looking for food were called | nomads |
The earliest Native American from New Jersey were called the __________________ | Lenape |
The two types of houses that the Lenape made were _________________________ and ____________________ | longhouses and wigwams |