Ice Age Cause and Effect Quiz

In prehistoric times what were the people called who were hunters traveling in groups?

• nomads

• travelers

• settlers

• Americans

The prehistoric people began to move from Asia into the land we now call ____________ today.

• Rome

• South America

• Europe

• North America

True or False: These nomadic hunters planned to move from one land to another.

• True because they wanted better living conditions.

• False because they were simply following the herds of animals that they hunted for their own survival.

It is thought that these people traveled on foot across land between Asia and North America called ________________________.

What made it possible for these people to eventually travel even farther into North America?

• The climate began to warm and thaw out the giant glaciers that had blocked their path.

• Their enemies in the mountains retreated.

• They were able to build ships to sail along the coast.

• They tamed wild animals to carry them across the land.

What do scientists call the path between the two glaciers that opened up?

• The Prehistoric Arctic Glacier

• The Ice-Free Corridor

• The Beringia Ice Sheet

• The Nomadic Pathway

What was the effect of the two giant glaciers melting and opening up a path?

What was the cause of the prehistoric nomads traveling into North America?

As earth's climate changed and it became warmer, what started to disappear from our world forever?

• arctic glaciers

• ancient cultures

• many prehistoric animals

• nomadic hunters

We do know that saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths are now extinct, but another ancient creature did survive. What was it?

• mastodon

• dinosaur

• buffalo

• megalodon