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WorksheetsChapter 1 Review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How many years ago did the first people migrate into Alabama?
a)
15,000 years ago
b)
12,000 years ago
c)
8,000 years ago
d)
5,000 years ago
2.
What group of Indians followed herds of now extinct animals (mammoths)?
a)
Mississippian
b)
Woodland
c)
Archaic
d)
Paleo
3.
Which word refers to garbage dumps of mussel shells left by the Archaic Indians?
a)
chiefdoms
b)
palisades
c)
middens
d)
geologists
4.
What type of scientist studies fossils and tools left behind by a previous geological age?
a)
geologist
b)
biologist
c)
zoologist
d)
archaeologist
5.
What type of scientist studies how the Earth was formed and changes over time?
a)
geologist
b)
archaeologist
c)
zoologist
d)
biologist
6.
What group of Indians used the atlatl?
a)
Paleo
b)
Archaic
c)
Woodland
d)
Mississippian
7.
What group of Indians were the first to use the bow and arrow?
a)
Paleo
b)
Archaic
c)
Woodland
d)
Mississippian
8.
What word means before history was written down?
a)
historic
b)
prehistoric
c)
midden
d)
geologist
9.
What two hemispheres is Alabama located in?
a)
Southern and Eastern
b)
Southern and Northern
c)
Northern and Western
d)
Eastern and Western
10.
What are Alabama's neighboring states?
a)
Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, Florida
b)
Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas
c)
Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida
d)
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia
11.
What are the 5 major land regions of Alabama?
a)
Cumberland Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Highland Rim
b)
Highland Rim, Mountains, Coastal Plain, Ridge and Valley, Piedmont
c)
Piedmont, Hills, Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Ridge and Valley
d)
Ridge and Valley, Plateau, Hills, Coastal Plain, Black Belt
12.
What word means people that live in a certain place or area?
a)
archaeologists
b)
geologists
c)
inhabitants
d)
middens
13.
What word means to move from one place into another?
a)
migration
b)
middens
c)
prehistoric
d)
geologist
14.
What Indians made their bowls from stone?
a)
Paleo
b)
Archaic
c)
Woodland
d)
Mississippian
15.
What river is on the border between Alabama and Georgia?
a)
Alabama River
b)
Tennessee River
c)
Tallapoosa River
d)
Chattahoochee River
16.
What word is a "throwing stick" used by the Archaic Indians?
a)
spear
b)
atlatl
c)
bow and arrow
d)
arrowhead
17.
What word means"the remains of a living thing from a former geological age"?
a)
atlatl
b)
prehistoric
c)
fossil
d)
midden
18.
What word means "the wearing away of land by wind or water over time"?
a)
midden
b)
inhabitant
c)
erosion
d)
petroglyph
19.
What is the word for the large town or community built by the Mississippian Indians?
a)
palisade
b)
chiefdom
c)
petroglyph
d)
midden
20.
What word means "artwork carved into caves and rocks by the Native Americans"?
a)
midden
b)
petroglyph
c)
prehistoric
d)
geologist
21.
What was the "high wall or fence built around a chiefdom" in Mississippian times called?
a)
chiefdom
b)
palisade
c)
midden
d)
prehistoric
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