First Americans

How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the Ice Age? 

• sailed across a narrow strait
• traveled south from Canada
• Traveled across a land bridge
• sailed to Mexico and drifted north

How do historians learn how American Indians lives so long ago

• read their journals
• live in their shelters
• speak to the families
• study their artifacts

Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?

• searching for food
• to locate farmland
• flee from hostile tribes
• search for a better climate

What is the most important to the survival of the American Indians? 

• home ownership
• trading with other tribes for needs
• ability to use natural resorces
• warm and mild climate

Which word means "to travel"?

• culture
• bison
• migrate
• agriculture

A _______ is a set of beliefs and way of life that is special to a certain group.

• migrate
• culture
• irrigation
• religion

Instead of staying in one place, these people traveled to find food.

• The Mayan
• hunter-gatherers
• The Inuit
• culture

Around 10,000 years ago, people began to practice_______. They planted and raised their own food.

• agricultiure
• irrigation
• hunting
• continent

Another word for "home" is...

• culture
• Aztec
• dwelling
• classroom

During the last Ice Age the oceans became more shallow, because

• the seawater evaporated.

• the ice in the glaciers started to melt.

• it did not rain for many years.

• much of the water was sucked up into glaciers.