Earliest Americans Assessment

The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is called

• Beringia.

• the Arctic Circle.

• Nunavut.

• the Four Corners.

The people who lived in Beringia were

• Europeans.

• South Americans.

• farmers.

• hunter-gathers.

The earliest Americans came

• from Asia.

• with the Vikings.

• with Colombus.

• from England.

The first Native people of the Americas to raise crops, specifically corn, lived seven thousand years ago in

• Beringia.

• Florida.

• Mexico.

• Canda.

A dome-shaped shelter made from snow blocks is called a(n)

• ice sheet.

• igloo.

• longhouse.

• wigwam.

A special Inuit canoe made from animal hide is called a

• tundra.

• lichen.

• canyon.

• kayak.

The Ancestral Pueblo were

• Cherokees.

• Inuit.

• cliff dwellers.

• Haundenosaunee.

The Ancestral Pueblo lived in an area that is now called

• the Four Corners.

• Beringia.

• the Southeast.

• the Eastern Woodlands.

Because they were farmers, the Mound Builders

• migrated often.

• stayed in one place.

• lived in the Southwest.

• hunted buffalo.

The population of Native Americans decreased rapidly because Europeans brought

• gold.

• germs.

• Apache.

• Seminole.