Migration to the Americas

A tool, weapon, or other object left behind by earlier peoples is an artifact

• True

• False

Maize is a type of?

• Bean

• Corn

• Pumpkin

• Squash

If not by the land bridge, how else would humans have reached the Americas

• Plane

• Swim

• Boat

• Train

A person who stays in the same place in order to farm is known as a nomad

• True

• False

What is the reason early humans migrated to the Americas?

• Visit family

• Look for better land to farm

• In search of animals to hunt

• In search of colder climates

Once in the Americas, what general direction did the nomads head

• North

• East

• South

• West

A narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water is a?

• Archipelago

• Island

• Bay

• Strait

Which two pieces of land were connected by Beringia?

• North America and Turtle Island

• Asia and North America

• Asia and Siberia

• Alaska and California

What is one theory about how early people migrated from Asia to the Americas?

• They rode mammoths and caribou

• The came on horseback

• They walked across a land bridge

• They came with Christopher Columbus

Why were oceans shallower during the Ice Age?

• The sea water evaporated from the excess heat

• Much of the water was locked up in glaciers

• The ice in the glaciers started melting

• It did not rain for hundreds of years