history Test ch 1&2.txt

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What is the vast evergreen forest region of the north?

taiga
What is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water?

Bering Strait
what is the world's largest bay?

Hudson Bay
What is the smallest, coldest ocean?

Arctic Ocean
What are the vast, frozen plains located mostly within the arctic circle?

Tundra
What is the coldest region in the north called?

Frigid Zone
what is the name of the ground that is permanently frozen?

Permafrost
what is the point beyond which no trees can grow called?

Timberline
what is the world's largest gulf?

gulf of Mexico
what is the name of the world�s largest island

Greenland
what continent is the third largest?

North America
what is the name of the area between the North Pole and the northern timberline?

Arctic
what is the highest peak in North America?

Mt McKinley
what is the large mass of ice that flows slowly overland?

glaciers
who is known as America�s great storyteller?

Will Rogers
who was one of America's greatest athletes?

Jim Thorpe
Who was the famous English missionary to the Canadian Inuits and their neighbors?

Sir. Winfred Grenfell
What is the region connecting North and South America and the many islands rising up out of the Caribbean sea?

Central America
Who were the most famous Indians in South America?

Incas
What is the narrow body of water that separates Russia from Alaska?

Bering Strait
what is the movement of a group of people or animals from one part of the world to the next?

Migration
what is dried meat that was pounded together with fat and berries called?

pemmican
what is the record of what has happened to mankind?

history
what are the trees that do not lose their leaves called?

Evergreen
what is the "way of life" of a group of people called?

culture
what is the setting in which certain types of plants and animals thrive called?

habitat
what is the study of the earth?

geography
What do the people who live in Greenland or the Canadian Arctic call themselves?

Inuits
what Indian group of Central American had one of the most advanced early civilizations of the Western Hemisphere?

Maya Indians
what is a long, hooded jacket made of different types of fur called?

parkas
what is the animal that has shaped the landscape of North America more than any other animal?

beaver
who are the most famous Indians who lived in Mexico?

Aztecs
- 1. North America
- 2. Pacific Ocean
- 3. Atlanict Ocean
- 4. South America
- 5. Africa
- 6. Arctic Ocean
- 7. Europe
- 8. Asia
- 9. Indean Ocean
- 10. Pasific Ocean
- 11. Antarctica
- 1. Amazon River
- 2. Isthmus of Panama
- 3. Atacama Desert
- 4. Andes Mountains
- 5. Cape Horn
- 6. Strait of Magella
- 7. Tierra del Fuego
- 1. Alaska
- 2. Arctic Ocean
- 3. Baffin Island
- 4. Greenland
- 5. Rocky Mountains
- 6. Pasific Ocean
- 7. California
- 8. Yucatan Peninnsala
- 9. West Indeas
- 10. Florida
- 11. Appalachian Mountains
- 12. Island of Newfoundland
- 13. Atlantic Ocean
- 14. Victorian Island
- 1. Bering Strait
- 2. Mackenzie River
- 3. Great Bear Lake
- 4. Great Slave Lake
- 5. Grat Salt Lake
- 6. Great Basin Desert
- 7. Colorado River
- 8. Rio Grande
- 9. Gulf of Mexico
- 10. Mississippi River
- 11. Missouri River
- 12. Great Lakes
- 13. St. Lawrence River
- 14. Caribeean Sea
- 1. Canada
- 2. US
- 3. Mexico
- 4. Bahamas
- 5. Cuba
- 6. Nicaragua
- 7. Panama
- 1. Venezuela
- 2. Brazil
- 3. Peru
- 4. Chile
- 5. Argentina

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history Test ch 1&2.txt

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6th grade history test ch 1&2 New World History & Geography

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