4th Grade SS Review #1

A __________ is a thick mountain of ice that forms over many years.

• ice age

• mammouth

• glacier

• Beringia

A time when the Earth was much colder and large areas were covered with snow was called the __________.

• Ice Age

• migration

• glacier

• continent

The land bridge first used by people to come to America was called __________.

• Bering Strait

• Beringia

• continent

• migration

Two animals tracked and eaten by ancient hunters were __________ and __________. (Choose two answers.)

• mammouth

• antelope

• tiger

• mastodon

The __________ is the waterway that separates Alaska and Asia.

• Bering Strait

• Beringia

• Nile River

• Indian Ocean

__________ is the movement of people or animals to go live in different places.

• Continent

• Beringia

• Migration

• Mammouth

An ____________ is a man or woman made item that allow scientists to study what the world was like before written history.

• continent

• fossil

• artifact

• archaeologist

An ancient hunting tool used to hurl a spear with great force is called a __________.

• atlatl

• Clovis

• arrow

• continent

What was the role of Beringia in the peopling of the Americas?

• Beringia allowed humans and animals to migrate between Asia and North America

• Beringia formed during the last Ice Age

• Beringia connected Asia and North America through a land bridge

• Beringia was discovered recently

What was the role of Beringia during the last Ice Age?

• Beringia connected Asia and North America

• Beringia formed due to the accumulation of water in glaciers

• Beringia allowed migration between continents

• Beringia is submerged under the Bering Sea