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US History to 1877 Review checklist Part One
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1. How many continents are there?
Seven
2. The land mass that includes both Europe and Asia is called:
Eurasia
3. Name the eight geographic regions of North America.
Coastal Plain,
Appalachian
Mountains, Canadian
Shield, Interior
Lowlands, Great
Plains, Rocky
Mountains, Basin and
Range, and Coastal
Range.
4. Name the geographic region described:
• Located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico
• Broad lowland providing many excellent harbors
Coastal Plain
5. Name the geographic region described:
• Located west of Coastal Plain extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama
• Old, eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in North America)
Appalachian
Highlands
6. Name the geographic region described:
• Wrapped around Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape
• Hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers
• Holds some of the oldest rock formations in North America
Canadian Shield
7.Name the geographic region described:
• Located west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains
• Rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys, and grassy hills
Interior Lowlands
8. Name the geographic region described:
• Located west of Interior Lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains
• Flat land that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands
Great Plains
9. Name the geographic region described:
• Located west of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range
• Rugged mountains stretching from Alaska to Mexico; high elevations
• Contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers
Rocky Mountains
10. Name the geographic region described:
• Located west of Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevada's and the Cascades
• some small mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America
Basin and Range
11. Name the geographic region described:
• Rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada
• Fertile valleys
Coastal Range
12.This
highway for
and later
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this map.
ocean served as the
explorers, early settlers,
immigrants.
waterways on
The Atlantic Ocean
13. This river was the gateway to the west.
The Ohio River
14. Inland port cities grew in the Midwest along these lakes.
The Great Lakes
15. These rivers were the transportation arteries for farm and industrial products. They
were links to ports and other parts of the world.
The Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers
16. This river was explored by Lewis and Clark.
The Columbia River
Line
24.
17. This river was explored by the Spanish.
The Colorado River
18.This river forms part of the northeastern border with Canada and connects the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
The St. Lawrence
River
19. This river forms the border with Mexico.
The Rio Grande
20. This body of water provided the French and Spanish with exploration routes to
Mexico and other parts of America
The Gulf of Mexico
21. Provides the USA with access to other parts of the World?
Atlantic Coast,
Pacific Coast and
Gulf Coast
22. Lines of latitude
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic Capricorn
23. Lines of longitude
Prime Meridian
24. Geographic features are related to and can define
Patterns of trade
Locations of cities
and towns
The
westward(frontier)
movement
Agriculture and
fishing industries
25. A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water?
Tributaries
20. These American Indians lived in present-day
Alaska and northern Canada. They lived in Arctic
areas where the temperature is below freezing much
of the year.
Inuit
26. These Indians lived in the Pacific Northwest coast, where the climate was rainy and
mild.
Kwakiutl
28. These Indians lived on the Great Plains. This region, which is covered by dry
grasslands, is in the interior part of the United States.
Lakota/Sioux
29. These Indians lived in the Southwest in present-day New Mexico and Arizona, where
they lived in desert areas and areas bordering cliffs and mountains
Pueblo
30. These Indians lived in the heavily forested Eastern Woodland in the Northeast.
Iroquois
31. What factors greatly affected the way each of the American Indian groups lived, found Geography and
food, and built shelters?
climate
32. What did Iroquois Indians of the Eastern Woodland use to build their homes?
Wood from the
forests.
33. Which Indian group lived in teepees made from buffalo skin?
Lakota
34. What are resources found in nature?
Natural Resources
35. What are resources that people produce such as good and services?
Human Resources
36. What are good produced and used to make other goods and services?
Capital Resources
37.What type of resource would be wild animals they hunted, crops,
and fish?
Natural Resources
38. What type of resource would be fishermen, hunters, and clothes makers?
Human Resources
39. Canoes, bows and spears would be an example of this type of resource?
Capital Resource