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1st 9 weeks Review
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the first people get to the Americas? | They went across the Bering Straight into Alaska following their food, which followed its food. Came from Siberia all the way to South America. |
| How did early Native Americans learn to adapt to their enviorment? | They made things like tools weapons, tents, and used every part of the animal they hunted. |
| Why do you think early American civilizations developed along large bodies of water? | For drinking, bathing, transportation, and to get away from enimes. |
| How did the Aztec build a military empire? | They concurde other empires and took their weapons, tools, and took them as slaves to make their empire bigger. |
| Why is the Inca considered a great civilazation? | Because it concured many other civilazations they had 9 million people living there, and had cut terraces into mountains for farming. |
| How are Mayan cities unique? | They all have a pyramid for each city. |
| Things left behind by early peoples, such as stone tools. | Artifacts |
| A scientific method to find out how old and aftifact is. | Carbon dating |
| Pictures or symbols that are use to represent word, sound,or concepts. | Hieroglyphics |
| A movement of a large number of people into a new homeland. | Migration |
| A period of extremly cold tempetures when part of the planets surface was covered with massive ice sheets. | Ice Age |
| A person who moves from place to place. | Nomad |
| The study of ancient peoples. | Archaeology |
| The equator is the imaginary line that runs around the earth halfway between the | North and South Poles |
| The equator divides the earth into the | Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
| The United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia are in the | Northern Hemisphere |
| What is the imaginary line that runs from the North to the South Pole. | Prime Meridain |
| What is the starting point for Longitude and divides the Earth into two hemispheres | Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| The United States, Canada, Mexico and South America are in what hemisphere. | Western |
| Who lived in the desert of present-day Arizona. They built irrigation channels to bring water to the hot, dry land from the nearby Gila and Salt Rivers and left behind pottery, carved stone, and shells. | Hohokam |
| The _____________ lived in an area known as the Four Corners (or the meeting place) of present-day Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from A.D. 1 to A.D. 1300. They built stone and cliff dwellings called pueblos. | Anasazi |
| The ______________ hunted and farmed and built tents called tepees that they moved with them from place to place. They learned to tame wild horses and used them to hunt and fight. | People of the Plains |
| The ______________ may have been the last to migrate to North America. They built igloos to protect themselves from severe weather. They wore furs and sealskins to keep them warm and dry. They hunted whales, seals, and walruses on water and caribou on lan | People of the North |
| The _______________ formed complex political systems of governing. Women got to choose the 50 men who sat on the league council. Until the late 1500s when these groups joined together, they fought wars with one another. | People of the East |
| The ______________ made homes of adobe bricks, and they raised maize, beans, and squash. The Navajo and the Apache settled in the region in the 1500s and were hunters and gatherers and built square homes called hogans. | People of the Southwest |
| The ______________ were farmers and traders who built large burial mounds shaped live birds, bears, and snakes. They left behind pearls, shells, cloth, and copper in the mounds to show their variety of trade. | Hopewell |
| The ______________ used the resources of the forest and sea as they hunted and gathered. Built wooden houses and made canoes, cloth and baskets from tree bark. They caught salmon. The Ute and Shoshone created temporary shelters as they traveled to search | People of the West |
| The_______________ farmed and adapted to the warmer woodlands climate of their region. They grew corn, tobacco, squash and other crops. | People of the Southeast |
| Low land with rich soil for farming, extends into the Gulf Coastal Plain in the south. The first region to be heavily populated | Coastal Plains |
| Also called the Sierra Madre (mother range). They were a serious obstacle to migration in the 1800s. | Rocky Mountains |
| Open, dry grassland with few trees in the west, toward the east the land becomes more fertile “the breadbasket | Interior Plains |
| Land is a giant plateau (the Great Basin) holding Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Southern part is desert like Death Valley (California, Nevada). | Intermountain Range |
| Contains a series of mountain ranges-Coast Mountains, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevadas. Mount McKinley (Alaska), Mount Rainier (Washington) | Pacific Coast |
| Older than the Rocky Mountains so peaks are lower. They were the first barrier to migration in the 1700s. | Apalachian |
| Name the 3 types of maps. Which changes the MOST frequently and why? | Political, physical and thematic. Political |
| Which map displays mountains and rivers and other landforms? | Physical |
| Which map displays country boundaries, roads and capitals? | Political |
| What kind of map would you use to display information about the favorite lunch entrée at FJH? | Thematic |
| Name the 5 components of all maps | Title, grid, compass, key, or legend |
| What are the cardinal directions? | North, south, east, and west |
| How many time zones does the contiguous United States have? | Four |
| Name the zones. | Pacific, mountain, central and eastern |
| Which zone is Louisiana in? Name 2 more cities in our zone | Central Little Rock and Dallas |
| Answers the question, “What makes this point on earth special? | Place |
| Describes how people use and influence their natural surroundings | Human environment interaction |
| The exact position of a certain place on the earth’s surface. | Location |
| Shows the transfer of ideas or goods around the globe. | Movement |
| Refers to descriptions of certain areas based on similarities or differences. | Region |
| What country are Pisa, Genoa and Venice in? | Italy |
| Why are Pisa, Genoa and Venice important in this time period? | Major trade center |
| What two TOOLS helped European explorers go further than they had ever traveled before? | Astrolabe, compass |
| ___________ caused people to be interested in India, China and Asia when new goods began arriving from the East. | Marco Polo |
| __________ was the country that led exploration because of their navigation school. | Portugal |
| African kingdoms like Ghana, Mali and Songhai became wealthy because of their trade in _____. | Gold and salt |
| The Caravel improved sailing because of its _______________, 3 masts and shallow bottom. | Triangular sail |
| Who gave Columbus the money to start his expedition in 1492? Name the monarch and the country. | Queen Elizabeth, Spain |
| Spain, Portugal, (A)____________, and (B)__________ looked for new routes to (C)____________. | A. England B. France C. India, China |
| How did the Renaissance influence the goals of European rulers? | Made them more open about things. |
| Name the 4 causes of exploration: | Developing new trade routes, being weathly and powerfull, convert people to Christianity |
| Why did the Europeans want to avoid buying Asian goods from Muslim merchants in Arab cities? | Too expensive |
| What was the main goal of European monarchs in the 1400s? | To make money, rule trade, competitution with other countries |
| How did Christopher Columbus plan to reach Asia? | Sail west all the way around untill he reached Asia. |
| Why did he call the Caribbean Islands the “West Indies” and the natives, “Indians”? | He thought he was in India |
| Centers for the growing East-West trade of spices, perfumes, and silks included Venice, Genoa, and Pisa. | True |
| During the Renaissance, rulers discouraged exploration outside of Europe. | False |
| Information from explorers assisted mapmakers in creating more accurate land and sea maps. | True |
| Columbus made four voyages to the Americas claiming land for Portugal as far south as northern South America. | False |
| Vasco de Gama and Bartholomeu Dias were early European explorers who sailed around Africa. | True |
| Spain and Portugal agreed to divide ownership of the entire unexplored world. | True |
| Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca following the death of the Inca ruler Atahualpa. | True |
| The Seven Cities of Cibola were finally discovered by Juan Ponce de León. | False |
| The taxing of Native Americans by the Spanish led to improved living conditions for the Native Americans. | False |
| Mercantilism led to economic competition among the countries of Europe. | True |
| Henry Hudson sailed west from northern England on his voyage to North America. | True |
| French fur traders established trading posts in Quebec and other parts of Canada. | True |
| Who was Marco Polo?a. a religious leader b. a pirate c. a philosopher d. an explorer and author | d. an explorer and author |
| The historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity is known as thea. Age of Enlightenment. b. Age of Reason. c. Middle Ages. d. Renaissance. | d. Renaissance |
| Which Portuguese prince laid the groundwork for a new era of exploration?a. Bartholomeu Dias b. Henry the Navigator c. John II d. Vasco da Gama | b. Henry the Navigator |
| In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to America with the Nina, Pinta, and the. Cortéz. b. Isabella. c. Santa María. d. Tordesillas | c. Santa María. |
| Who was the first Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America?a. Juan Ponce de León b. Hernán Cortés c. Christopher Columbus d. Francisco Pizarro | a. Juan Ponce de León |
| The explorer who first sailed around the southern tip of Africa wasa. Robert de La Salle. b. Ferdinand Magellan. c. Vasco da Gama. d. Bartholomeu Dias. | d. Bartholomeu Dias. |
| England, France, and the Netherlands hoped to discover aa. route to Africa. b. route to South America. c. southwest passage to India. d. northwest passage to Asia. | d. northwest passage to Asia. |
| Which explorer's crew founded Quebec? a. de Champlain b. Cabot c. Cartier d. Joliet | a. de Champlain |
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