North America plains

Question 1

A hilly region wishing the temperate some thst is covered by grasses

Answer 1

Prairie

Question 2

A time of little or no rain

Answer 2

Drought

Question 3

What are tumbleweeds?

Answer 3

Plants that dry up and break off from their roots that roll across the plains

Question 4

A nickname for the prairie

Answer 4

A sea of grass

Question 5

What is an example of a close-cropping grazer?

Answer 5

Sheep

Question 6

The two animals most important to the prairies

Answer 6

Prairie dog and the bison

Question 7

The most important animal to the Indians of the plains

Answer 7

The buffalo

Question 8

Why do naturalists usually use the term bison instead of buffalo?

Answer 8

To distinguish it from the water and cape buffalo

Question 9

The largest land animal of the Western Hemisphere

Answer 9

Bison

Question 10

What is another name for a male bison?

Answer 10

Bison bull

Question 11

At one time,where did most prairie dogs live?

Answer 11

Vast underground “towns” that stretched endlessly over the prairies

Question 12

Are prairie dogs actual dogs?

Answer 12

No! They’re similar to gophers

Question 13

Why were prairie dogs given that name?

Answer 13

Their cries sounded similar to a small dog’s bark

Question 14

Why do prairie dogs dig endlessly?

Answer 14

To kept their claws trimmed

Question 15

A favorite of the plains Indians for hunting and eating

Answer 15

Prairie chicken

Question 16

What are the 4 minerals the Ozarks are rich in?

Answer 16

Lead,coal,iron,and marble

Question 17

Why did the Sioux Indians give the Black Hills its special name?

Answer 17

From afar,they have a dark appearance

Question 18

What are the Black Hills famous for?

Answer 18

Mount Rushmore

Question 19

Which presidents are carved onto Mount Rushmore? (Hint: 2 of them both start with ‘Th’ )

Answer 19

George Washington,Thomas Jefferson,Abraham Lincoln,and Theodore Roosevelt

Question 20

What does the Indian word ‘ Mako Sica ‘ mean?

Answer 20

Bad lands

Question 21

The name of this range is an Chippewa word meaning ‘giant’.

Answer 21

Mesabi Range

Question 22

The classic river meaning ‘big river’ and the ‘father of waters’

Answer 22

Mississippi River

Question 23

Name the chief river of North America and it’s chief tributary

Answer 23

Mississippi,and Missouri River

Question 24

The longest river in North America

Answer 24

Missouri River

Question 25

The Mississippi River is the 2nd largest river in the US (T or F and why)

Answer 25

False,it’s the largest

Question 26

Big Muddy is a nickname for..

Answer 26

The Missouri River

Question 27

The 3 most important western tributaries of the Mississippi

Answer 27

Missouri,Arkansas,and the Red River

Question 28

What is the Mississippi’s source?

Answer 28

Lake Itasca

Question 29

What is the Ohio River’s most important tributary?

Answer 29

Tennessee River

Question 30

What forms one of the greatest waterway system in the world?

Answer 30

The Mississippi River

Question 31

The largest gulf

Answer 31

Gulf of Mexico

Question 32

An important Atlantic current,which’s source is the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 32

Gulf Stream

Question 33

This tribe was named for the black moccasins they wore

Answer 33

Blackfoot tribe

Question 34

What does Dakota mean?

Answer 34

Friends or allies

Question 35

What does ‘Sioux’ mean? And who shortened the word?

Answer 35

It means snakes In the grass,and the French shortened it

Question 36

The tribe that gave up farming and hunting for the nomadic life

Answer 36

Cheyenne tribe

Question 37

The Crows and Comanches were bitter enemies of which two tribes? (Hint: one of the names meant snakes in the grass)

Answer 37

Sioux and Cheyenne

Question 38

I’m a Sioux medicine and chief who claimed to have a vision falling into my camp. Who am I?

Answer 38

Sitting Bull

Question 39

Which General died alongside 200+ of his soldiers in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer 39

General Custer

Question 40

What was a pole-framed tent covered in skin called?

Answer 40

A tepee