Assessment Unit 1 Lesson 1 GR 5: Settling the Americas

First Americans that followed animals across a land bridge during the last ice age for food were called _____________.

• Maya

• Olmec

• Hunter and gatherers

• Europeans

The first hunter/gatherers that came to North America crossed a land bridge from _____________.

• Australia

• Hawaii

• Asia

• Antarctica

Water that is frozen into sheets of slow moving ice are called ______________.

• adobe

• glaciers

• moutains

• rivers

People who study the tools, bones, and remains of ancient people are called ________________.

• Avengers

• achaeologists

• astronaunts

• hunter/gatherers

The _____________ civilization developed in the rainforests of southern Mexico.

• Eskimo

• Inca

• Aztec

• Olmec

This ancient culture is known for "stone head carvings".

• Ancestral Pueblo

• Olmec

• Maya

• Mound Builders

The _________ built stone pyramids and temples to honor their hundreds of gods.

• Mississippians

• Ancenstral Peublo

• Maya

• hunter-gatherers

Both the Olmec and the Maya settled in what is known today as _________________.

• Canada

• Mexico

• Australia

• Brazil

The Hohokam used a system of farming that used ditches to guide waters to their fields called _____________.

• dry farming

• mound building

• irrigation

• adobe

The Hohokam built homes from bricks made of mud and straw called _________.

• pueblo

• adobe

• volcanic ash

• slate