Natural Texas and It's People Vocab Quiz

Who are people that study the past called?

• Anthropologists

• Archaeologists

• Historians

• Nomads

What term describes a period before written records?

• Prehistory

• Paleo-Indians

• Matrilineal

• Confederacies

Who are scholars that study how people live and relate to each other, today and in the past?

• Historians

• Anthropologists

• Archaeologists

• Nomads

What are tools, weapons, and other objects made by people that give clues about how people used to live called?

• Artifacts

• Adobe

• Hides

• Tepees

What is another name for the first Americans?

• Nomads

• Paleo-Indians

• Hunter-gatherers

• Bands

What term describes people who move from place to place?

• Nomads

• Allies

• Confederacies

• Bands

What are portable huts built from poles covered with animal hides and reed mats called?

• Tepees

• Adobe

• Wigwams

• Mitotes

What is the practice of planting a different crop on a plot of land each year called?

• Crop rotation

• Matrilineal

• Mitotes

• Confederacies

What term describes associations who work together?

• Allies

• Confederacies

• Bands

• Nomads

What is a kind of clay dried in the sun and used in bricks as a building material called?

• Adobe

• Hides

• Artifacts

• Tepees