Social Studies Q2 DA Review

Based on the illustration, the first Americans adapted to their environment by -

• using spears for hunting small animals. 
• using spears for gathering plants and small animals. 
• wearing warm clothing and hunting large animals.
• wearing warm clothing and gathering plants.

Which of the following is part of a nomadic lifestyle?

• Setting up plots of land in order to grow crops
• Moving south for the winter to follow a bison herd
• Building houses out of mud bricks
• Constructing large cities
  

If you saw this object at a museum, what could you conclude about the American Indians who made it?

• They probably lived in the southeastern U.S.
• They probably lived somewhere in the Great Plains
• They probably lived in the American Southwest
• They probably lived in the Pacific Northwest

An example of a natural resource American Indians would use are-

• fish
• bow and arrow
• hunters
• computer

Animals that lived on the Great Plains were the 

• monkeys
• buffalo

American Indians used special plants to make

• medicines
• longhouses

___________ was the first European to reach America in 1492, he had 3 ships on his voyage: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Christopher Columbus
• John Cabot
• Amerigo Vespucci

Europeans were trying to find a water route to __________________, they thought that this would make their country rich with its silk, spices, and treasures. 

• Asia
• America
• Antartica
• Australia

What is the Spanish word for conqueror?

• technology
• conquistador
• settlement
• circumnavigate

I was looking for the Northwest Passage in 1534. On my journey, I sailed down the Saint Lawrence River. 

• Henry Hudson
• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Christopher Columbus