Missouri Social Studies Chapter 3 Vocabulary Quiz

the study of the way humans lived long ago

• surplus

• archeology

• elevation

the time before people kept written records

• sea level

• mounds

• prehistory

piles of earth

• mounds

• teepees

• prehistory

a greater amount than what is used or needed

• surplus

• prehistory

• elevation

a diagram that shows when events took place

• teepees

• timeline

• surplus

 a round, pointed tent made from buffalo hide that is stretched over poles

• timeline

• elevation

• teepees

low, dome-shaped buildings

• archeology

• lodges

• prehistory

extended families

• surplus

• clan

• timeline

the height of the land above sea level

• elevation

• clan

• mounds

the level at the surface of the sea

• prehistory

• sea level

• mounds