California History 2024

During the Ice Age, the changing climate caused people to migrate from Asia to North America across the Land Bridge. What were the various tribes seeking?

• berries and nuts

• mainly large game (animals)

• other tribes

• sunshine

What do the following animals all have in common: the Colombian mammoth, the Sabertooth cat, Jefferson's ground sloth, and the Western camel?

• They can all be found in the Fresno Zoo.

• They are all white.

• They are all extinct.

• They are all dinosaurs.

How do we know what these extinct animals from the Ice Age possibly looked like?

• preserved bones and fossilized animal remains

• photographs

• journals kept by Indians

• books with sketches

Our great state of California has four regions: the mountains, the coastal plains, the desert, and the Central ________________, where we live.

• lake region

• arctic

• ocean

• Valley

What was the main nut the Choinumne ate?

• acorn

• peanut

• walnut

• pistachio

True or False: The Indians who adopted Thomas were mean, fierce, and unfriendly.

• True

• False

The Choinumne Indians lived near which lake close to Hanford?

• Tulare Lake

• Lake Tahoe

• The Great Salt Lake

• Lake Yosemite

How did the native populations of North and South America come to be called Indians?

• That's what they called themselves.

• Columbus liked the sound of that name.

• Columbus thought he had landed in India.

• That was the captain's name.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the ___________ Ocean after crossing Panama.

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Arctic

• Indian

Who is credited as the first to circumnavigate the world, even though he, himself, died before returning home?

• Columbus

• Father Serra

• Popeye

• Magellan