First Peoples Quiz 1

Scientists KNOW that humans originated in what continent?

Which are the two ways scientists think humans came to the Americas?

• Walking over the Land Bridge from Asia

• Over the glacier ice on sleds

• Boats along the Pacific Coast

• Swimming from Hawaii

What did scientists find that made them question the Land Bridge theory?

• Skeletons

• Footprints

• Ancient houses

• Buried boats

Scientists also found arrowheads, but they don't agree that they're good evidence. Why?

• They can't figure out how old they are.

• They could just be broken rocks.

• They could be fake.

• They're too sharp and painful to study.

The recovery and study of artifacts, bones (human), and ruins remaining from the past.

• archaeology

• artifact

• excavation

• culture

In the Turtle Island myth, why do the Creators send a flood?

• People are not praying.

• People are eating too many animals.

• People are fighting.

• People are ugly.

In the Turtle Island myth, the Turtle swims down and brings up dirt to make a new land.

• True

• False

The muskrat dies trying to get the dirt for Turtle Island.

• True
• False