New World Rising Vocab Quiz Practice

A region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands, and the surrounding coast.

• Artifact

• Chinapas

•  Caribbean

• Hypothesis

To move from one country, place, or locality to another.

• Migration

• Environment

• PaleoIndians

• Quipu

A continent and region of the Western Hemisphere southeast of North America and has much of it south of the Equator

• Glyphs

• CityState

• Terracing

• SouthAmerica

A region that includes Canada and the United States

• Environment

• North America

• Quipu

• Land Bridge

An ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of colored threads knotted in different ways

• Artifact

• Hypothesis

• Irrigation

• Quipu

The name given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently lived, in the American continents during the final glacial episodes.

• Aztec

• Maya

• Paleo Indians

• Terracing

Bringing in water to the land to help plants grow

• Irrigation

• Terracing

• Artifact

• Glyphs

The whole complex of factors such as soil, climate, and living things that influence the form and the ability to survive of a plant, animal, or human being

• Environment

• Hypothesis

• Quipu

• Meso America

Make or form (sloping land) into a number of level areas resembling a series of steps to create a flat area to farm.

• Terracing

• Land Blasting

• Coal Mining

• Migration

Something not yet proven but assumed to be true for purposes of further study or investigation

• Guess

• Irrigation

• Fact

• Hypothesis