Chapter 4: Ancient People

Where did humans used to live before coming to the Americas?

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• All of the Above

What is a glacier?

• a vast sheet of ice.

• a small piece of land.

• a rocky mountain.

• a small piece of land surrounded by water.

Thousands of years ago, an ice bridge was formed uniting what two areas of land?

• Mexico and United States

• Alaska and Asia

• Alaska and Europe

• United States and Alaska

After 20,000 years the ice bridge melted and now it is covered by which body of water?

• Sea of Cortes

• Bering Strait

• Lake Ontario

• Lake Michigan

What type of scientists study the past?

• Archaeologists

• Astronomers

• Botanists

• Zoologists

What is an example of an artifact?

• tools

• pottery

• bones

• All of the above

Some scientists believe that the earliest people might have come to the Americas by boat earlier than the ice bridge formed between Asia and Alaska, because certain sites in South America seem to be very, very old, older than sites farther north.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When is it believed that the first people reached Texas?

• 11,000 B.C.

• 500 B.C.

• 1000 B.C.

• 20,000 B.C.

What is an atlatl?

• small animal

• a stick used to throw a spear

• a place to hunt

• a piece of garment

Why did the earliest hunter-gatherers keep moving from one place to another?

• to chase herds of animals.

• plants were consumed.

• all of the above

• none of the above.