Ch. 1 Lesson 1 Vocab Quiz

They have found evidence that early peeople migrated to the Americas in several different ways.

Migrated means

• to move from one place to another

• to sleep over the winter

• to walk to the office

• traveling from place to place in search of animals to hunt, fish to catch, and fruit and nuts to collect.

Hunter-gatherers travelled from place to place in search of food.

Hunter-gatherer means

• to move from place to place

• land or bodies of water in a place

• a person who travels from place to place in search of fish to catch, animals to hunt, and fruit and nuts to collect.

• the weather in a place over time

Geography is

• the weather in a place over time

• where people decided to settle

• the ability to bring water to a dry area

• the study of Earth

  the land or bodies of water found in a place

The climate in the artic has harsh, cold winters.

Climate is

• the practice of planting and raising food

• people who move from place to place collecting food

• how people use a resource of an area

• The weather in a place over time

The climate in a region influences the way people live.

To influence means to

• the weather over a period of time

• to help produce an affect on the way people think, behave, or live

• to spread out

• the study of Earth

Resources were distributed differently across continents.

To distribute means to

• spread out

• move from one place to another in search of food

• to move from one place to another

• the weather in a place over time

Early peoples were hunter-gatherers and often roamed the region in search of food.

Nomads are

• scientific knowlege or tools to do work

• people who move within a specific region to follow herds of animals and collect food

• to move from one place to another

• to spread out

People began practicing agriculture 10,000 years ago, they modified their environment.

Agriculture is

• land or bodies of water of a place

• the weather in a place over time

• the practice of planting and raising food

• the use of scientific knowledge or tools to do work

Computers are a type of technology.

Technology is

• bringing water to a dry area

• the use of scientific knowledge or tools to do work

• building permanent settlements

• to help produce an affect on the way people live, behave, and think

Farmers used irrigation to keep their plants healthy in dry places.

Irrigation is

• bringing water from nearby rivers to water crops

• scientific knowledge or tools to do work

• groups that stayed in one place

• the weather in a place over time