Jeopardy Terms to Know More Terms to Know Physical Characteristics Human Characteristics Adaptations to the Environment Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question What is the name a symbol that shows direction (north, south, east, and west) on a map?

$100 Answer Compass Rose

$200 Question What is the name for a drawing that shows what places look like from above and where they are located?

$200 Answer A map

$300 Question What is the name for a picture or thing that stands for something else?

$300 Answer Symbol

$400 Question What two imaginary lines are used to create the earth’s hemispheres?

$400 Answer The prime meridian and the equator

$500 Question What is the name for places that have common characteristics?

$500 Answer Regions

$100 Question What is the name for a round model of Earth?

$100 Answer Globe

$200 Question What is the name for the directions of north, south, east, and west?

$200 Answer Cardinal directions

$300 Question What is the purpose of a map legend?

$300 Answer It shows what the symbols used on a map represent.

$400 Question What is a hemisphere?

$400 Answer A hemisphere is half of a sphere (globe) created by the prime meridian or the equator.

$500 Question What can identify the exact location of a place?

$500 Answer The letter (left) and number (bottom) coordinates of a grid system identify the exact location of a place.

$100 Question Describe the physical characteristics of ancient Greece.

$100 Answer Located on a peninsula with many islands, mountains, and hills; surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea; had limited rich soil

$200 Question Describe the physical characteristics of ancient Rome.

$200 Answer Located next to a river; city built on many hills; limited rich soil

$300 Question Along which river did the ancient Chinese settle and use for irrigation, farming, and fishing?

$300 Answer the Huang He

$400 Question What American Indian group lived in an area described by hot summers, harsh, cold winters; plains, prairies, rolling hills; and grasses?

$400 Answer The Plains (Lakota) Indians

$500 Question What are the physical characteristics of the area of the Pueblo Indians?

$500 Answer Hot days, cold nights, little rainfall; high flatlands; cactus

$100 Question What are characteristics?

$100 Answer Different traits

$200 Question What are the human characteristics of the people of ancient Greece?

$200 Answer They were mainly farmers, shipbuilders, and traders.

$300 Question What place describes people with the following human characteristics: farmers, miners, and traders?

$300 Answer The empire of Mali

$400 Question What are the human characteristics of the people of ancient Rome?

$400 Answer They were mainly farmers, road builders, and traders.

$500 Question What was the main difference between the human characteristics of ancient Greece and ancient Rome?

$500 Answer The people of ancient Greece were shipbuilders; the people of ancient Rome were road builders. (They were both farmers and traders.)

$100 Question Which ancient people adapted to their environment by fishing, farming and irrigating the land?

$100 Answer The people of ancient China

$200 Question How did the ancient Egyptians adapt to their environment?

$200 Answer They ancient Egyptians adapted to their environment by farming and irrigating the land near the Nile River.

$300 Question Which people adapted to their environment by farming on hillsides, trading on the Mediterranean Sea, and developing small independent communities because of the many mountains?

$300 Answer The people of ancient Greece

$400 Question How did the people of the empire of Mali adapt to their environment?

$400 Answer The people of the empire of Mali knew that salt was an important natural resource for the people in the desert, so salt was traded for gold.

$500 Question Which American Indian group adapted to their environment by moving around the region to hunt for buffalo, and using horses for transportation?

$500 Answer The Lakota Indians

Final Jeopardy What is a similarity in how the Powhatan and Pueblo Indians adapted to their environments?

Final Jeopardy Answer Both American Indian peoples farmed the land.