Gr. 6 Exploring Latin America/Canada Quizz
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- America was named after him
- Amerigo Vespucci
- When Columbus landed in the New World he thought he was in some islands near which continent?
- Asia
- The name the early French explorers gave to the area of North America they explored
- New France
- An Indian word for "village"
- Canada
- He first used the terms "North" and "South" America
- Mercator
- This term refers to an area that shares a common feature
- Region
- When referring to a British heritage people often use this term
- Anglo-American
- They call it "Latin America" because...
- the languages spoken there come from the Roman Empire
- The peninsula where Portugal and Spain are located
- Iberian
- Two countries found on the Iberian peninsula
- Spain and Portugal
- The ocean that is between South America and Europe
- Atlantic Ocean
- Describe tundra
- treeless ground in northern Canada
- The shape of the Canadian Shield
- horseshoe
- Location of the Canadian Shield
- from the Arctic circle southward toward the U.S.
- The largest chain of lakes in the world
- Great Lakes
- Number of seasons found in the tropics
- two
- The regions that make up Middle America
- Mexico, Central America, Caribbean
- The longest chain of mountains in the world
- Andes Mountains
- This covers most of the Amazon Basin
- the rain forest
- Longest river in the Americas
- the Amazon
- A level area raised above the surrounding land
- plateau
- Italian who did his exploring for England
- Cabot
- A narrow stretch of water that connects 2 larger bodies of water
- strait
- What is a cartographer?
- map maker
- Who was the famous Flemish cartographer?
- Mercator
- The earth is divided into how many hemispheres?
- four
- Does the US or Canadian government more closely resemble the English government?
- Canadian
- Put these countries in order according to land size.....US Canada Russia Belize
- Russia, Canada, US, Belize
- True or False...plains are also prairies
- true
- Which is higher....a basin or a plateau
- a plateau
- The Yucatan Peninsula is in Mexico, Canada, or Cuba?
- Mexico
- Which refers to a longer period of time....climate or weather?
- climate
- What word refers to moisture falling from the air?
- precipitation
- Put these in order from warmest to coolest....frigid zone, tropics, temperate zone
- tropics, temperature, frigid