Frontier Vocab Quiz

Question 1

The practice of growing enough crops to provide for ones family group

Answer 1

Subsistence Farming

Question 2

The practice of growing enough crops to provide for one’s family group.

Answer 2

Substinence farming

Question 3

Spanish term for cowboy

Answer 3

Vaqueros

Question 4

The process of increasing human settlement in cities

Answer 4

Urbanization

Question 5

The spatial distribution of where humans inhabit the Earth

Answer 5

Settlement Patterns

Question 6

Dishonest or Imorral

Answer 6

Corrupt

Question 7

The belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle confict

Answer 7

Pacifism

Question 8

Strong tissue that connects muscles to bones

Answer 8

Sinew

Question 9

A coarse of action used to achieve a goal.

Answer 9

Tactic

Question 10

Separated based on membership in a racial or ethnic group

Answer 10

Segregated

Question 11

An African American soldier serving in the Western States after the Civil War

Answer 11

Buffalo Soldier

Question 12

A person who illegally leaves the armed forces while still required to serve.

Answer 12

Deserter

Question 13

A person who rejects lawful behavior.

Answer 13

Renegade

Question 14

Wire with clusters of short sharp spikes that go along fences.

Answer 14

Barbed Wire

Question 15

A large farm where cattle are bread.

Answer 15

Ranch

Question 16

The action or process of innovating. A new method, idea or product.

Answer 16

Innovation

Question 17

Machinery or equipment developed from scientific knowledge.

Answer 17

Technology

Question 18

A sudden panicked rush of a number of animals.

Answer 18

Stampede

Question 19

A type of cloth or woven fabric.

Answer 19

Textiles

Question 20

Water way used to take or bring water.

Answer 20

Irrigation

Question 21

An agreement between countries to end war.

Answer 21

Treaty

Question 22

A tower/blows wind

Answer 22

Windmill