Test 1 Study Guide: geography skills, Native Americans, exploration

September 7th

USA Latitude and Longitude Activity #2

  1. The location 26 degrees N, 105 degrees W is in what country? Mark the spot on the map with a black X. Mexico
  1. Is the location 35 degrees N latitude, 75 degrees W longitude in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean? Mark it on the map with a green X. Atlantic Ocean
  1. Is the location 30 degrees N, 87 degrees W on land or under water. Mark it on the map with a blue X. on land
  1. On the map, label the location 38 degrees N latitude, 105 degrees W longitude with a red X and write the name of the state it is in. Colorado
  1. The location 43 degrees N, 75 degrees W is in what state? On the map, write the state's name. New York

6. Name the state whose southern border is latitude 35 degrees N, and label the state on the map.

Tennessee

  1. What is the capital city of the USA?

Washington DC

  1. What country borders the USA on the north?

Canada

  1. What country borders the USA on the south?

Mexico

  1. What ocean borders the USA on the west?

Pacific

  1. What ocean borders the USA on the east?

Atlantic

  1. What large body of water borders the USA on the southeast?

Gulf of Mexico

Northwest Coast / Southwest / Eastern Woodlands
Tribes: Chinooks, Makah, Haida / Tribes: : Hopi, Navajos, Apache / Tribes:
Cherokee, Iroquois, Mohawk
Homes The Chinooks village was made up of rows of wooden house called pit houses. A pit house is a house built of wooden boards with no windows. Each house was built partly over a hole so that some of the rooms were underground. / Homes The Hopi took advantage of the desert climate and built their homes out of adobe, a type of clay. They built their homes on top of one another much like an apartment building called a pueblo. The Navajos lived in houses called hogans. A hogan is a cone shaped house built by covering a log frame with mud or grass. / Homes: The Iroquois built longhouses. A longhouse is a long wooden building in which several families lived together, it was made of elm bark and had a large door at each end. The Cherokee had two homes, one for the winter and one for summer. Winter homes were small cone shaped pit houses made of wooden poles covered with earth. Summer houses were larger box shaped houses with grass or clay walls and bark roofs. In both the winter and summer homes several families from a clan lived together.
Crops Grown/animals hunted Due to the wet, cool climate of the Northwest Coast, the Indians that lived there were unable to grow many crops. They hunted the many animals that lived in the forest and also fished in the rivers. The Makah’s were famous for going hunting for whales. This was a very dangerous task. / Crops Grown/animals hunted
The Indians of the Southwest grew corn, beans, squash and cotton. They hunted the small animals that live in the desert. / Crops Grown/animals hunted
The Indians of the Eastern Woodlands grew corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers and tobacco. They also gathered wild plants from the forest. They fished and hunted squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, bears and deer.
How tribes adapt to region
The Chinooks who were unable to farm came up with another way to get the items they needed. They began a trading network with their neighboring tribes. This gave the Chinooks a chance to get the items they could not grow or find in the forest. Both tribes took advantage of the forest near their homes for hunting and for building supplies. / How tribes adapt to region
The Indians of the Southwest were forced to conserve their supplies in case of drought. They used materials like adobe and mud to build their homes because lumber was harder to come by in the desert. The Indians of this region had to be mindful of having a surplus of food at all times. / How tribes adapt to region
The Indians of the Eastern Woodlands built their homes in villages to offer protection from neighboring tribes and animals from the forest. This region was the most populated so fights were very common. The Indians adapted to the climate by building their homes with materials to both keep them warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Explorer / Places explored / Country that sponsored trip / Discoveries made
Christopher Columbus / Landed in a place he called San Salvador, located in the Caribbean Sea. Explored the area nearby including the Bahamas / Spain / Columbus discovered the new land of San Salvador which he thought was close to India.
Barthlomeu Dias / Dias explored the coast of Africa searching for a way to India / Portugal / Dias discovered that the journey around Africa was very dangerous and although he never made it he provided useful advice to future explorers.
Amerigo Vespucci / Sailed to the places Columbus explored, also sailed down the coast of South America. / Portugal / Vespucci realized that Columbus could not have reached Asia like he first thought because: the land did not look like Asia, the trip was not long enough and Asia was not a large as Columbus thought.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa / Discovered the Isthmus of Panama that connects North America to South America. / Spain / Was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. Balboa provided further proof that Columbus never reached Asia like he thought.
Ferdinand Magellan / One of his ships reached Asia by sailing west around the Americas. / Portugual / Discovered that it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west, however this trip took over three years and was very hard on the sailors.
Vasco da Gama / Discovered that is was possible to sail around Africa and reach India / Portugal / Reached India for the first time by sailing west around Africa

Explain how Marco Polo contributed to future exploration: Marco Polo was a famous trader in Europe, at the time of his death his stories were published into books. These books were read by a generation of young men who were amazed at the things Polo was and experienced. These readers of his stories soon wanted to go and have the same adventures as Marco Polo did.