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Bookmark or Share- Iroquois | History, Culture, & Facts | BritannicaIroquois, any member of the North American Indian tribes speaking a language of the Iroquoian family. They occupied a continuous territory around the Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Erie in present-day New York state and Pennsylvania (U.S.) and southern Ontario and Quebec (Canada).
- Great Migration | Definition, History, Map, & Dates | BritannicaThe Great Migration was the widespread movement of millions of African Americans, beginning in the 1910s, from rural communities in the South to large cities in the North and West in the United States.
- Rock | Definition, Characteristics, Formation, Cycle, Classification ...Rock, in geology, naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals. Such aggregates constitute the basic unit of which the solid Earth is composed and typically form recognizable and mappable volumes. The three major classes of rock are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock.
- Kansas | Flag, Facts, Maps, & Points of Interest | BritannicaKansas, constituent state of the United States of America. It is bounded by Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south, and Colorado to the west. Lying amid the westward-rising landscape of the Great Plains of the North American continent, Kansas became the 34th state on January 29, 1861.
- Tundra | Definition, Climate, Animals, & Facts | BritannicaTundra, a cold region of treeless level or rolling ground found mostly north of the Arctic Circle or above the timberline on mountains. Tundra is known for large stretches of bare ground and rock and for patchy mantles of low vegetation such as mosses, lichens, herbs, and small shrubs.
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