The Americas

Native Americans living on the Great Plains

• were part of the Iroquois League.
• set up temporary villages.
• hunted for walruses and caribou.
• built homes from stone and blocks of earth.

Why did the Inca use terrace farming?

• They were located in the Andes mountains.
• They needed canals to bring water to crops in the dry desert area.
• They were located above the Arctic Circle.
• They did not approve of slash-and-burn methods.

What group was a mound builder society?

• Hohokam
• Hopewell
• Inca
• Iroquois

What two groups had two calendars, one for tracking religion and one for farming?

• Maya and Aztec
• Olmec and Toltec
• Hopi and Zuni
• Tlingit and Chinook

Because it was covered by dense forests, the land east of the Mississippi River was known as

• the Great Forest
• the Eastern Woodland
• the Great Plains
• the Tundra

Which of the following is an example of  a Native American group that lived on the west coast of North America?

• Apache
• Cherokee
• Inuit
• Tlingit

The capital of the Inca Empire was _______.

• Cahokia
• Teotihuacan
• Cuzco
• Tollan

The oldest civilization in the Americas was most likely built by the ____.

• Toltec
• Inca
• Moche
• Olmec

North and South America are joined by _____.

• a land bridge
• an isthmus
• high mountains
• desert

Where was the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlan located?

• on a swampy lake
• in the desert
• in the mountains
• on the coastline