Chapter 6 Review

True or False: The Americas are made up of North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean

• True

• False

True or False: The Rocky Mountains are lower than the Appalachians

• True

• False

Growing and trading crops helped early Americans form more complex societies

• True

• False

True or False: One of the most difficult challenges faces by the ancient Maya were the sinkholes that were found in southern Mexico and Central America

• True

• False

True or False: The Hopi of the Pacific Northwest built homes from adobe

• True

• False

Grand emperor retreat complex built by the Inca high in the Andes Mountains

• Machu Picchu

• Mesoamerica

• Hogan

• Adobe

Powerful ruler who expanded the Aztec empire and built temples, aqueducts, and roads

• Machu Picchu

• Montezuma I

• Pizzaro

• Hernan Cortes

Navajo home

• Teepee

• Isthmus

• Hogan

• Mesoamerica

Region between central Mexico and Costa Rica

• Mesoamerica

• Machu Picchu

• Rocky Mountains

• Pacific Northwest

Narrow strip of land connecting two larger land bodies

• Bridge

• Valley

• Peninsula

• Isthmus