3a, 3b,3c -Unit Review- Early American Cultures

A scientist that studies people from the past and artifacts is called

• biologist
• archaeologist
• shaman
• dentist

What is one disagreement among scientists?

• What resources people used in the Western Hemisphere
• Exactly how and when people first came to the Western Hemisphere
• When the first Europeans came to the Western Hemisphere
• Where the Iroquois, Lakota, Pueblo, Kwakiutl, and Inuit people lived

According to the Land Bridge Theory, which continent did Native Americans travel from?

• Asia
• North America
• Europe
• Africa

What important discovery was made at Cactus Hill?

• dinosaur fossils from 10,000 years ago
• bones of a Mastodon
• mummies from over 15,000 years ago
• human artifacts from over 15,000 years ago

Cactus Hill is located along which river?

• Ohio River
• Nottoway River
• St. Lawrence
• James River

Any object made, used, or altered by humans

• Artifact
• Evidence
• Migration
• Archaeologist

What is the largest cause of disagreement about migration of the first people to the Western Hemisphere?

• Artifacts in the west, near Alaska, should be the oldest.  But there are older artifacts in Virginia.
• Anything before history is impossible to estimate the age of.
• There never was an ice age or land bridge or people that could walk across it.
• People can't live in cold conditions like Alaska.

Cactus Hill is located in southeastern Virginia, in this geographic region, shown in green on the map.  Which region is this?

• Canadian Shield
• Great Plains
• Basin and Range
• Coastal Plains

What makes Cactus Hill one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America?

• evidence of transportation the early Americans used to get to North America
• evidence that large animals lived there
• evidence of a battle between the settlers and American Indians
• evidence that humans lived there 15,000 years ago

The ________ used irrigation for their crops.

• Pueblo
• Kwakiutl
• Inuit
• Iroquois