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WorksheetsAncestral Pueblo People
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The First Americans came from______________
a)
Europe
b)
Australia
c)
Asia
d)
Antartica
2.
The First Americans crossed a land bridge over the _______________.
a)
Bering Strait
b)
Atlantic Ocean
c)
Nile River
Nile River
Nile River
d)
Indian Ocean
3.
The First American came to America because they were _____________
a)
Running away
b)
Chasing their food
c)
Looking for a home
d)
going to Chaco Canyon
4.
The Mammoth disappeared because of _____________
a)
overhunted
b)
disease
c)
grasslands dried up
d)
all of the above
5.
What was the first NM culture to garden?
a)
Clovis People
b)
Basketmakers
c)
Great Pueblo
d)
Desert Culture II
6.
The Clovis and Folsom were named after _______________
a)
a spearpoint
b)
bow and arrow
c)
a mammoth
d)
pottery
7.
Desert Culture II was known for what two items?
a)
bow and arrow
b)
baskets and milling stone
c)
spears and pottery
d)
sun dagger and pottery
8.
An atlatl is a ________________
a)
arrowhead
b)
spearpoint
c)
piece of pottery
d)
spear throwing device
9.
What are known as the three sisters to the pueblo people?
a)
corn, beans and squash
b)
rabbits, deer and antelope
c)
mammoth, bison and sloth
d)
none of the above
10.
What are the buildings at Chaco Canyon aligned with?
a)
Mars and Venus
b)
Sun
c)
Sun and the Moon
d)
Moon
11.
After the ancestral pueblo people left Chaco Canyon they went to __________
a)
the Rio Grande Valley
b)
Santa Fe
c)
the four corners area
d)
basin and range
12.
The people abandoned Chaco Canyon because of ________
a)
drought
b)
famine
c)
violence
d)
all of the above
13.
The word "Anasazi" comes from what language?
a)
Spanish
b)
American
c)
Navajo
d)
Pueblo People
14.
The word "Anasazi" means _____________
a)
friends of ours
b)
enemies of our ancestors
c)
old people
d)
my people
15.
What did the ancestral pueblo people not use baskets for?
a)
carrying water
b)
cooking
c)
decoration
d)
gathering
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