DELHI PRIVATE SCHOOL – DUBAI

UAE SOCIAL STUDIES

REVISION SHEET
UNIT TEST II 2023-24

1. ____________, ___________, _____________ are the important geographical features of the North America.
Ans. Appalachian mountain, Central Mexican Plateau, Great Plains, Rocky Mountain, Canadian Shield, Coastal
plains etc.
2. The sunlight falls slantingly on the Arctic region and making it very cold.
State whether the statement is true or false.
Ans. True
3. Scientists believe that people migrated to North America from ________ during the last ice age 20,000 years
ago.
Ans. Asia
4. Identify the following geographical features.

Yellowstone National Park

The Grand Canyon

 The Canadian Shield

Mount Denali

5. The Great Plains of North America are called as the breadbasket because food grains, fruits and vegetables
are grown here in large quantity.
State whether the statement is true or false.
Ans. True
6. In the Arctic regions of the far North, the _______ tribes lived by hunting in the polar region and ______ in
the icy waters.
Ans. Inuit, fishing
7. Name any 2 countries of the Central North America.
Ans. Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
8. In earlier centuries, people-built pueblos of stone in cities carved into rock in the dry climate of
_______________.
Ans. Sonoran Desert.
9. In the Plains region, the native people lived in a_________ pattern of movement to follow herds of _______
and other animals across great grass plains of the Plains region.
Ans. Semi-nomadic, buffalo
10. In Mexico, in _______ the Spanish Viceroy, ____________, conquered________, the largest city of the
Aztec Empire.
Ans.1519, Hernando Cortés, Tenochtitlan.
11. The Western United States is divided from the Great Plains by the Rocky/Appalachian Mountain.
Cross out the wrong word.
Ans. Appalachian Mountain
12.The people who were living in the Americas before the European Explorers arrived are considered?
a. Indians b. Native Americans c. Red Indians d. Indigenous people
Ans. Option d.
13. In the Eastern regions of Canada and the United States, the __________ tribes and other first people carved
______ out of trees.
Ans. Iroquois, canoes
14. Cortés had the Aztec chief Montezuma imprisoned where he died of disease or poisoning.
Ans. Montezuma
15. Who were known as the settlers?
16. Indigenous Americans lacked immunity to diseases that the ________ brought with them.
Ans. Europeans
17. In 1492 it is estimated that there were between __ to __ million Indigenous people in North America, by
1800 the population was reduced to about 600,000.
Ans. 8 to 12, 600,000
18. During a period of about 350 years, the Indigenous population of North America decreased by more than
____.
Ans. 90%
19. The Canadian Shield is a large sheet of rock that stretches all the way from the ____________ in Eastern
Canada to the _____________ in Southern Canada and northward all the way up to the Arctic regions.
Ans. St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes
20. Mexico’s western coast borders the ____________ where the climate is ________ and the area is sheltered
from most tropical storms that seasonally arise in the _________.
Ans. Pacific Ocean, drier, Gulf of Mexico.