Ch. 16-1 The Americas

In the Southwest, which Native Americans used adobe and stone to build multistoried, apartment-like structures built into the protective cliffs?

• Adena
• Hopewell
• Anasazi (pueblos)
• Inuit

What became the most important food to the early native people of the Americas?

• Wheat

• Barley

• Millet

• Corn

2 groups the Hopewell and Mississippians settled in the eastern part of the present day United States. What aspect of their culture did they share?

• They all built chinampas

• They all built Pueblos

• They all built observatories

• They all built mounds

The Americas are made up of North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

• True

• False

According to some scientists, how did ancient people cross from Asia to North America?

• Using a primitive raft

• By Viking ship

• Across a large glacier

• Using a land bridge

What the two major mountain ranges are located in the Americas?

• Rocky Mts. and Brazilian Highlands
• Rocky Mts. and Andes Mts.
• Andes Mts. and Appalachian Mts.
• Appalachian Mts. and Sierra Madre 

Which physical feature stretches 4,500 miles along the west coast of South America?

• Sierra Madre Mountains
• Atacama Desert
• Amazon River
• Andes Mountains

What large mountain range is pictured here?

• Catskill Moutains
• Rocky Moutanins
• Appalachian Mountains

What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger  areas of land?

• Peninsula
• Island
• Inlet
• Isthmus

People who wander from place to place and have no settled home are called

• migration.

• glacier.

• origin story.

• nomads.