200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Geographical Regions Native Americans Explorers Colonial America U.S. Rivers & Waterways

This area is characterized by old eroded mountains.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

This area has it all! Mountains, deserts, and fertile valleys.

What is the Basin and Range?

This area spans from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.

What is the Coastal Plain?

This area contains some of the oldest rock formations in North America.

What is the Canadian Shield?

This area is west of the Rockies and east of the Sierra Nevada range.

What is the Coastal Range?

Inhabitants of the Plains who relied on buffalo for both food and shelter.

Who are the Sioux?

Living as far north as the Arctic Cirlce, this group relied on fishing and hunting for survival.

Who are the Inuits?

The Iroquois, known for farming, hunting, and its League of Nations inhabited this area.

What are the Northeastern Woodlands?

Made of mud, stone, and brick, the homes of the Southwest Indians are known as this, which is also their name.

What is Pueblo?

Food, clothing, and dwellings were all influenced by these two factors.

What are geography and climate?

This Frenchman claimed the entire Mississippi River Valley.

Who was LaSalle?

This body of water, separating present day Canada and the U.S. was discovered by Cartier.

What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?

This Spanish explorer led an army to the lands of the Pueblo.

Who was Coronado?

This country sent explorers along the western coast of Africa.

What is Portugal?

This economic force propelled many explorers on dangerous voyages to the New World.

What is mercantilism?

This document was the first set of “rules” for self-government in the colonies.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

William Penn founded Pennsylvania for this group seeking religious freedom.

Who are the Quakers?

Wanting to escape this, Puritans and Separatists founded colonies in the New World.

What is religious persecution?

Roanoke, the Lost Colony, and Jamestown were founded as this.

What is an economic venture?

England imposed this trade restriction on colonists shipping goods to England and Europe.

What is the Navigation Act?

Known by the acronym HOMES, these border Canada and the U.S.

What are the Great Lakes?

Lewis and Clark traveled this northwestern waterway.

What is the Columbia River?

This river let explorers into America and later provided a means of trade and transportation for an expanding America.

What is the Mississippi?

The Ohio River is often referred to by this nickname.

What is Gateway to the West?

On a U.S.map, this river would be farthest southwest.

What is the Rio Grande?