Ch 5: North American Plains Flashcards
What is the time of little or no rain called?
Drought
It is a plain or hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses.
Prairie
What are the dried up plants that break off from their roots and roll across the plains called?
Tumbleweeds
What is the vast area called the “bread basket” of the nation?
Great Plains
What was the most important animal to the Indians of the plains?
Bison
What animal lived in vast underground “towns” across the plains?
Prairie dogs
How did the Indians use all the parts of the bison?
Tell your mom
How did the Blackfoot tribe receive its name?
They wore black moccasins
What does the term “Dakota” mean?
Allies / friends
Who drove the Cheyenne Indians out of the central plains?
Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians
What Sioux medicine man claimed to have a vision of white soldiers falling into his camp?
Sitting Bull
In what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat General Custer and his soldiers?
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Who were the Plains Indians who formed a confederacy and spread all across the northern plains; name means “allies” or “friends”
Dakota
Which Plains Indians tribe was named for their black moccasins?
Blackfoot
Which Plains Indians tribes were once skilled in pottery making and cloth weaving?
Sioux and Cheyenne
What name given to the Dakota means “snake in the grass”?
Sioux
What is the chief river of North America and the largest river in the US?
Mississippi River
What is the source of the Mississippi River?
Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota
What is the longest river in North America?
Missouri River
What is the world’s largest gulf?
Gulf of Mexico
What is the largest island of the West Indies?
Cuba
What current originates in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico?
Gulf Stream
Where are the Black Hills?
western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming
In what states are the Badlands?
South Dakota and North Dakota
Where is the Mesabi Range? What mineral is found in abundance there?
northern Minnesota, iron ore
What 2,000-foot mountains are just west of the Mississippi River in the states of Missouri and Arkansas?
Ozarks
Name the three most important western tributaries of the Mississippi River?
Missouri River, Arkansas River and Red River
