5th Grade Impact The Early Desert People p. 14-15

5th Grade Impact The Early Desert People

p. 14-15

Multiple Choice

Which crop did the Hohokam people NOT grow?

• cotton

• corn

• squash

• beans

• chocolate

Multiple Select

In what ways were the settlements of the Hohokam and the Olmec and the Maya different? Choose all that apply.

• The Olmec and the Maya lived in tropical rain forest of southern Mexico, while the Hohokam settled in the desert of the American southwest.

• The Hohokam lived in tropical rain forest of southern Mexico, while the Olmec and the Maya settled in the desert of the American southwest.

• The Olmec and the Maya, who lived in the desert, would have had a much more difficult time farming than the Hohokam.

• The Hohokam, who lived in the desert, would have had a much more difficult time farming than the Olmec and the Maya.

Multiple Choice

How did the Hohokam water their crops?

• They built irrigation ditches to bring water to their fields.

• They bring vases of water from the rivers.

• They just used rain water.

• They did not grow crops. They just gathered fruit from trees and hunted animals.

Multiple Choice

What might have led the Hohokam to settle in the area between the Salt River and the Gila River?

• They wanted to swim and have fun in the water, and so they would need to live near rivers to have access to water.

• They knew they would need to water their crops somehow, and so they would need to live near rivers to have access to water.

• They did it by accident but used the water for what they needed.

Multiple Choice

How did the Ancestral Pueblo people, Anasazi, water their crops?

• They built irrigation ditches to bring water from the rivers to their fields.

• They filled vases from the river, walked them to the village farm, and watered their crops.

• They did not grow crops because there was little water.

• They collected rainwater and irrigated their fields through a system of shallow drains.

Multiple Select

According to the text, what were the advantages of the cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people? Why were they engineered the way they were? Choose all that apply.

• An advantage was that cliff dwellings were easy to build.

• An advantage was that cliff dwellings were easy to defend against enemies.

• The building material, adobe, made the buildings warm at night and cool during the day.

• They matched the desert so they were hard to find even for some of the desert people.

Multiple Choice

The Ancestral Pueblo built their dwellings with adobe which is made with all of the following except

• mud

• logs

• straw

• plant material called thatch

Open Ended

Do you think we should be doing some things that the early desert people did? What should we imitate and why?

5th Grade Impact The Early Desert People p. 14-15