SS Test - Chap 1 Early Americans

Match the following

• an object that someone made in the past

• migrate

• to move

• artifact

• a possible explanation, hypothesis

• theory

• changed (their way of of living)

• ceremony

• an activity done for a special purpose

• adapted

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the following

• study the artifacts of people (long ago)

• archeologist

• thick sheets of ice

• Ice Age

• a long period without rain

• 
• a high, flat landform (it's steep)

• 
• a long period of extreme cold,

• drought

Early people possibly migrated from Asia to the Americas because...

• They wanted to see if their boats worked

• They gave up on farming

• They followed the animals

• They need to build mesas

Which is NOT a possible theory of how people migrated from Asia to the Americas?

• From Europe (by boat or walking on glaciers)

• By boat from Africa to South America

• By boat, along the coast of Alaska and Canada into U.S. region

• The land bridge (water was low, so they could cross Bering Strait)

Most early people lived...

• By the Artic Ocean

• in the mountains

• in tall buildings

• wherever food was found

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Early Americans mostly got their food from hunting animals.

• True

• False

When the Ice Age was over, the early people became...

• hunter gatherers

• bridge builders

• scientists

• tired, so they went back to Asia

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

_________ affected the way of life of people because it allowed them to settle in one place

• hunting

• artifacts

• glaciers

• agriculture

Mound Builders were _______________ because they were able to build enormous structures

• kind

• disorganized

• well-organized

• unmotivated

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Mound Builders built mounds as the ______________ for important chiefs.

• decorations

• burial places

• hunting areas

• farming area

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2