First Americans

Irrigation

• A way to supply water to an area of land

• A period of time with no rainfall

• To move

• a A severe shortage of food

Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?

• searching for food
• to locate farmland
• flee from hostile tribes
• search for a better climate

Plains Indians wore clothing made from animal hides. What activity was most important to them?

• believing they were part of a community of living things
• mining
• hunting
• gathering

Which of these describes one way American Indians adapted the environment to meet their needs?

• believing they were part of a community of living things
• SW people made things with corn
• Great Plains people made clothing from animals
• Eastern Woodlands people burned trees to plant corn

What is the name of the land bridge?

• Ibn Battuta's Pass
• Bering Strait
• Polo Strait
• Cortez's Pass

How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age?

• They sailed across a narrow strait.

• They traveled south from Canada.

• They traveled across a land bridge.

• They sailed to Mexico and then drifted north.

What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?

• Machu Pichu

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

Which group of people lived in igloos and wore sealskin clothing?

• Mound Builders

• Inuit

• Anasazi

• Maya

Beringia was a

• narrow body of water

• lost city

• land bridge

• ancient civilization

The Mayans were able to create a _______ with their knowledge of the sun and stars.

• wheel

• pyramids

• calendar

• pueblos