The First Americas Quiz

Region that extends both north and south of the Equator

• South America

• North America

• the Caribbean

• Antarctica

created by the early people of North America, but not by those from Central and South America

• mounds

• temples

• plazas

• cities

used animals for food, clothing, and shelter

• hunter-gatherer societies

• pastoral societies

• agricultural societies

• Industrial societies

collective name for a group of islands located in waters off northern South America

• the Caribbean

• Polynesian Islands

• Canary Islands

• Cape Verde Islands

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

• the Arctic

• Argentina

• the Caribbean

• Tierra del Fuego

North and South America are joined by ____.

• a desert

• high mountains

• a land bridge

• an isthmus

The southernmost point of the Americas is ____.

• the Equator

• the Pampas

• Tierra del Fuego

• the Arctic

It was difficult for early American people to cross the Appalachians.

• True

• False

The oldest civilization in the Americas was most likely built by the ____.

• Moche

• Maya

• Toltec

• Olmec

The Maya established their civilization in the rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.

• True

• False