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Ice Age Geography

Ice Age Exploration

Viking Geography

Viking Exploration

The Tough Stuff

What are frozen rivers?

A 100

Glaciers

A 100

How was climate different during the Ice Age?

A 200

Freezing Cold

A 200

How did the severely cold temperatures of the Ice Age

impact water?

A 300

It turned water into snow, ice, and frozen rivers.

A 300

The Bering Strait can be defined as a…

A 400

Land bridge or bridge of land connecting Asia to

North America

A 400

Explain what happened because of the frozen rivers?

Why was this important?

A 500

Frozen rivers created glaciers, which made sea levels to fall. This caused land to rise, creating a land

bridge called the Bering Strait, which allowed Asians to enter

North American by foot.

A 500

Ice Age explorers came from what continent?

B 100

Asia

B 100

When did the Ice Age occur?

B 200

30,000 years ago.

28,000 B.C.

B 200

How do we know the Ice Age explorers existed?

B 300

Our knowledge is based solely on what they left behind.

B 300

After being cut off from Asia, what happened to these first

settlers?

B 400

The developed new cultures with different languages,

customs, and physical traits.

B 400

Why did Ice Age explorers come into North America?

B 500

They were following migrating food.

B 500

Where did the Vikings originally come from?

C 100

Norway

C 100

After Norway, what were the next two countries settled by the

Vikings?

C 200

The Vikings settled Iceland and then Greenland.

C 200

What are Greenland’s physical characteristics like?

C 300

Greenland is icy and rocky.

C 300

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

Place A Wager

What country did Leif Ericson settle and why did he

name it this?

C 400

Ericson settled Vinland and name it this because the land had many vines with grapes on them. (Wineland and “Land of Vines”)

C 400

Why was exploration especially difficult for the

Vikings?

C 500

Exploration was difficult because they had no maps or

compasses.

C 500

What is another name for a Viking?

*Hint = Think of the country they come from!*

D 100

Norsemen

D 100

Name three adjectives that describe the Vikings

D 200

Fierce, warlike, destructive, brave, and/or intelligent

sailors

D 200

Who was the first Viking to explore and settle Greenland?

D 300

Eric the Red

D 300

What Viking was the first to see North America?

D 400

Bjarni Herjolfsson

D 400

Why do you think Eric the Red named the icy land he

discovered Greenland?

D 500

Eric the Red was trying to trick other explorers by

making his country sound more appealing.

D 500

Why did Eric the Red start exploring and eventually

finding Greenland?

E 100

Eric the Red found Greenland because he had been exiled from Iceland for killing to

men of noble descent.

E 100

Why was Leif Ericson looking for new land?

E 200

Leif Ericson was in desperate search of wood to build houses

with and to use for firewood because there were so few trees in

Greenland.

E 200

Why is Bjarni Herjolfsson important to history,

especially in terms of Leif Ericson?

E 300

Bjarni Herjolfsson is important to history because he was the first to

sight North America and told many people of his sighting, including Leif Ericson. Leif Ericson then

followed his directions for how to get to the “New World.”

E 300

How do we know the Vikings actually settled in Vinland?

E 400

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a settlement

including a variety of artifacts and the foundations of houses.

E 400

Explain why Christopher Columbus did not discover

America.

E 500

Answer: Details pertaining to Ice Age Exploration &

Viking Exploration accepted

E 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is:

European Explorers

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Who was the first to explore after the Vikings?

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Christopher Columbus

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