Social Studies Alive: Chapter 2

A natural environment includes __________.

• plants

• factories

• stories

• culture

Many American Indian groups tell origin stories in order to_______________.

• teach their children the arts of warfare.

• explain how Earth and its people came to be.

• predict how the world will end

• take the place of their native language.

According to the Hopis, where did people live at first?

• In the sky.

• Inside Earth

• Across the sea

• In a dense forrest

As they migrated, the first Americans went

in search of big game such as________________.

• whales.

• walruses.

• bears.

• caribou.

As they migrated, early American Indians had to adapt by____________________.

• using what was around them in nature.

• carrying all of their food with them.

• leaving old tools behind.

• appointing new chiefs to lead them.

Most early American Indians settled in places that had ____________.

• scare resources.

• lots of rain and snow.

• rich natural resources

• huge sheets of ice.

Which of these were the Inuits least likely to make in the their environment?

• snow goggles made from bone.

• an igloo built out of ice and snow.

• a winter coat of buffalo hide.

• a float constructed from sealskin.

Most scientists believe that the first Americans came from the continent of ___________________.

• Africa.

• Asia.

• South America.

• Australia.

When did these first Americans come to our continent?

• The last Ice Age.

• .Age of Reconstruction

• a heat wave.

• Age of Information

The person in the Sioux tribe that had the honor of painting the pictographs on the winter count was called the ________.

• painter.

• keeper.

• chief.

• hunter.