Chapter 1-3: The Earliest Americans

What do scientists today call the dry land that once connected Asia to North America? Mark all that apply.

• adobe

• land bridge

• Inuit

• Beringia

Describe the world was like during the Ice Age. Mark all that apply

• Much of the world's water was frozen in ice.

• Huge sheets of ice called glaciers covered much of Canada and the Northern United States.

• Some lands that are now under water were dry.

• All of the above are true

Small groups of a few families, perhaps 25-50 people, helped each other as they moved around in search of food. People who lived this way are called

• Mound Builders

• Inuit

• Hunter Gatherers

• Cliff Dwellers

Girls and women were responsible for ​ (a)   and men were responsible for ​ (b)  

• gathering plants and berries
• hunting

The people of Beringia tracked herds of ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   back and forth across Beringia.

• mammoth
• musk ox

Match the following

• Ice Age hunters in Beringia were moving into North America

• 14,000 years ago

• Ice sheets began to melt. The Ice Age was ending. Hunters followed the herds into North America.

• 15,000 years ago

• Earlier people might have arrived in North America by sea along the Pacific Coast.

• 9,000 years ago

• Groups of hunter-gatherers spread out throughout this new world.

• 30,000 years ago

What were three effects of groups of people moving from one place to another?

• They learned to live in their new homes.

• They learned to use the resources available to them.

• They developed hundreds of languages.

• All of the above.

True or False: About 7,000 years ago, people in Mexico discovered how to plant and raise corn.

• True

• False

​ (a)   and ​ (b)   caused many of the large mammals to die out.

• Overhunting
• the change in climate

True or False: The ability to grow food meant they could stay in one place for long periods of time.

• True

• False