Chapter One Test Review

Which detail belongs in the Clovis culture circle?

• traveled by boat to North America

• hunted mammoths and mastodons

• planted crops like corn and squash

• lived in the mountains during the winter

Which detail belongs in the Folsom culture circle?

• used mastodon hides for clothing and shelter

• developed a sophisticated social structure

• lived in permanent settlements all year

• made very large spearpoints

Which detail belongs in the center of the diagram?

• chose shamans as leaders

• built homes on frozen ice sheets

• performed ceremonial rain rituals

• hunted game with spears and atlatls

Which details belong in the Ancestral Pueblo column? Select the two correct answers.

• built cliff dwellings using stone and adobe

• made a coarse flour from seeds and grains

• created underground ceremonial chambers

• learned how to grow corn in parts of Mexico

• traded with people in the Great Lakes region

Which detail belongs in the Mound Builders column?

• used baskets to heap large piles of dirt

• made shoes out of yucca and other plants

• carved canoes out of trees for transportation

• did not practice any identifiable religious beliefs

Which culture formed mostly to the east of the Mississippi River?

• Clovis culture

• Folsom culture

• Ancestral Pueblo

• Mound Builders

Use the image to answer the question. These petroglyphs may tell the story of an important hunt. Which detail from the photograph supports this idea?

• the footprints

• the wiggly lines

• the figure throwing a spear

• the figure with a large head

How did agriculture change civilizations in North America?

• It made them abandon religion.

• It made them hunter-gatherers.

• It made them travel by boat overseas.

• It made them create permanent settlements.

Where did the first settlers who arrived in North America by boat land?

• Atlantic coast

• Gulf of Mexico

• Caribbean Sea

• Pacific coast

What is one reason the Mound Builders built mounds?

• to bury their dead

• to hide their location

• to trade with other cultures

• to communicate with neighbors