Ch 1.2 Quiz review

In which region did the Native Americans rely on animal skins to build their home?

• the Northwest

• the Plains

• the Southwest

• the Great Lakes

The Ancestral Pueblo developed which of these techniques?

• building roads

• irrigating fields

• digging burial mounds

• carving stone spearheads

Most Eastern Woodlands Indians lived

• far from other native peoples

• in an extremely harsh climate

• near lakes, rivers or the ocean

• on farmland carved out of the jungle

The first humans to arrive in the Americas came across Beringia from

• Africa

• Asia

• Australia

• Antarctica

Whales provided the Native Americans of the Arctic region with both food and

• heat

• shelter

• medicine

• entertainment

Which statement about the crafts of Native Americans in the Arctic demonstrates their use of materials unavailable in most other regions of the Americas?

• They built canoes out of large tree trunks.

• They cut wild grasses to weave baskets

• They gathered ivory to carve tools and utensils

• They used wood, grass, and sod to build houses.

The Ancestral Pueblo build their farms near mountains to take advantage of

• the cooler weather surrounding the mountains

• the rich nutrients that eroded off of the mountains

• the natural supply of water that ran off the mountains

• the mountain caves that let them live close to their fields