When the first European settlers arrived in what would become the colony of Pennsylvania, they learned that many of the streams and mountains had already been given names by the resident Native Americans, the Lenni Lenape.

Test your knowledge of Pennsylvania/Lenape etymology by matching the place descriptions on the left with the place names on the right.1 Where we fish with the bush net a Nockamixon2 Thirsty Earth b Lehigh3 Smooth running stream c Tamaqua4 Searching for land d Nanticoke5 Where the way forks e Aquashicola6 Where there are forks f Tobyhanna7 Feeding place of the bears g Macungie8 Bear Mountain h Catasauqua9 Seaside setters i Punxsutawney10 Black, deep and still water j Nescopeck11 Black lick k Coplay12 Where there are three houses l Towamensing13 Stream between two mountains m Quakake14 Town of the gnats n Lackawaxen15 Pine lands o Hokendauqua16 Great plains p Shickshinny17 Five mountains q Tohickon18 Little beaver r Pocono19 Alder stream s Mauch Chunk20 Driftwood stream t Nesquehoning21 Pasture lands u ShenandoahAnswers1 e 6 b 11 t 16 u2 h 7 g 12 a 17 p3 k 8 s 13 r 18 c4 o 9 d 14 i 19 f5 n 10 j 15 m 20 q21 l