Chapter 1: The First People in America Ever

True or false: People have been living in the Americas much longer than scientists used to think.

• True

• False

Communities of people who move from place to place, relying on plants and animals found in the wild for food.

• Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers

• Settlers

• Aztecs

• Maya

The movement of a number of people (or animals), usually to establish a new homeland.

• settlement

• Olmecs

• migration

• theology

The Bering Land Bridge connected what two continents?

• North American and South America

• Asia and North America

• Africa and Asia

• Europe and Asia

What most likely motivated hunter-gatherers to migrate across the Bering Land Bridge?

• Disneyland

• rising sea level

• predators

• food

The way a society behaves and its system of beliefs, laws, and customs.

• culture

• migration

• nomadic

• theology

Fill in the blank: Some tribes eventually stopped hunting and gathering. They realized they could plant seeds in the soil and farm foods like _____ (an early form of corn), beans, and squash.

• dragonfruit

• avacado

• maize

• watermelon

A group of people living

together as a group.

• nomadic

• society

• culture

• theology

An advanced and complicated society

• Beringia

• nomadic

• culture

• civilization

Fill in the blank: One of the first great civilizations in the Americas was the _____ society, which flourished around 1200 BCE on the coast of Mesoamerica

• Olmec

• Spanish

• Egypt

• Iroquois