Early Human Migration

What is migration?

• staying in one place

• moving to new places

What was it called when everything began to freeze?

• Ice Age

• Stone Age

During the ice ages huge sheet of _____________ covered much of the earth’s land.

• rock

• ice

A strip of land connecting two continents is a _____________.

• manmade bridge

• land bridge

Land bridges allowed Stone Age peoples to ______________ around the world.

• drive

• migrate

How long did migration take?

• hundreds of thousands of years

• five years

Early hominids, the ancestors of modern humans, migrated from Africa to _____________ as early as 2 million years ago.

• Asia

• Europe

Geographic features such as high ______________ and cold temperatures delayed migration northward into northern Asia.

• mountains

• waves

Scientists _______________ on when and how the first people arrived in North America.

• disagree

• agree

Most scholars think people must have crossed a __________________ from Asia to North America.

• car bridge

• land bridge