Social Studies Chapter 6 Lesson 1 Weekly Quiz May 12 2025

What is the body of water that covers Beringia and separates the North American and Asian continents?

• Bering Strait

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

Scientists have a theory about how people first came to North America.

What do they think?

• They believe people migrated from Asia over a land bridge between the two continents.

• They believe people from Asia built boats and sailed from Asia to North America.

• They believe people walked from South America to North America.

How long ago did the land bridge called Beringia connect Asia and North America?

• ten to twenty thousand years ago

• about a million years ago

• two thousand years ago

These are the highest points of land separating the waters flowing west from those flowing east in North America.

The _____ _____

Which of these best shows the Pacific Rim?

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What is this?

• A volcano

• A geyser

• A whirlpool

• A tsunami

Which of these is a photo of Mount St. Helens?

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Label these western states.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

Nevada

Oregon

Wyoming

Colorado

Washington

Idaho

Montana

Hawaii

Utah

California

Which of these regions are arctic or subarctic? (Red: 306)

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Arctic and Subarctic natives would rarely stay in the same place all the time. Why? (Red: 306)

• They had to move as the seasons changed.

• They moved their camps near caribou herds in the winter.

• They moved near lakes and rivers to fish in the summer.

• They followed bison herds on the Great Plains.