Lesson Quiz 7-1 The America

1. extends both north and south of the Equator

• A. the Caribbean

• B. South America

• C. hunter-gatherers

• D. Yucatán

• E. mounds

2. created by the early people of North America,

but not by those from Central and South

America

• A. the Caribbean

• B. South America

• C. hunter-gatherers

• D. Yucatán

• E. mounds

3. used animals for food, clothing, and shelter

• A. the Caribbean

• B. South America

• C. hunter-gatherers

• D. Yucatán

• E. mounds

4. collective name for a group of islands located

in waters off northern South America

• A. the Caribbean

• B. South America

• C. hunter-gatherers

• D. Yucatán

• E. mounds

5. The four geographical areas of the Americas are North America, South America, Central America, and

• A. the Arctic.

• B. Argentina.

• C. the Caribbean.

• D. Tierra del Fuego.

6. A land bridge from Asia to the Americas was made possible by which of the following?

• A. archaeologists

• B. the development of stone tools

• C. last Ice Age

• D. prehistoric people

7. narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies

• A. Machu Picchu

• B. Montezuma I

• C. hogan

• D. isthmus

• E. Mesoamerica

8. Central America is___________________.

• A. a continent

• B. a country

• C. an isthmus

• D. a peninsula

9. Historians believe the earliest Americans were most likely__________________ .

• A. artisans

• B. farmers

• C. hunters-gatherers

• D. Missionaries

What did the First Americans have to travel across in order to arrive in the Americas

• Bering Strait

• Hope Strait

• Cape of Good Hope

• Cape Horn