First Americans

People that are originally from North America are called...

• Native Americans
• Indians
• North Americans

According to many experts, how did the first people arrive in the Americas?

• Taking a boat across the Pacific Ocean.

• Walking over a land-bridge formed of ice, called "Beringia".

• Swimming across a channel separating Russia and Alaska.

• Canoeing across the Atlantic Ocean.

When someone or something MIGRATES they....

• Don't move from where they are.

• Move from one place to another; countries, continents, etc.

• Have several houses. 

In Native American culture, a totem pole is:

• A tree trunk,

  carved with sacred images

  created to represent ancestry, power, or wealth.

• A cone shaped tent made from animal fur.

• A furnace, tradtionally decorated and carved with American images. 

A "potlatche" is. 

• A potlatche is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States.

• A potluck is a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared.

"Nomad": A group is called nomadic if it ...

• lives in an isolated area.
• moves from place to place.
• they are settled in one place.

During the last Ice Age the oceans became more shallow, because

• the seawater evaporated.

• the ice in the glaciers started to melt.

• much of the water was sucked back up into glaciers.

"BERINGIA" is the name of the LAND-BRIDGE that once, during the Ice
Age, connected

• North America and South America.

• Alaska and California.

• Eurasia and North America.

• Africa and America.

Some scientists believe that the Native Americans migrated to America

• less than 5,000 years ago.

• 500 years ago.

• over 12,000 years ago.

• in 1992.

The first Americans (Native Americans) ended up in North America after a long migration, because

• they were following their food source as they slowly moved towards the Americas.

• they were trying to find North America.

• they were running away from the giant mammals.