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Alabama History Chapter 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is NOT a state that border's Alabama?

a)

Florida

b)

Tennessee

c)

Mississippi

d)

Georgia

e)

Louisiana

2.

Alabama is located in which two hemispheres? Click all that apply.

a)

Northern

b)

Eastern

c)

Western

d)

Southern

3.

People first came to Alabama about ____________ years ago.

a)

12,000 years ago

b)

120 years ago

c)

10,000 years ago

d)

200,000 years ago

4.

The ___________ Indians who moved to Alabama were following herds of now extinct food animals.

a)

Archaic

b)

Paleo

c)

Woodland

d)

Mississippian

5.

The _______________ Indians made bowls and other items from stone.

a)

Archaic

b)

Paleo

c)

Woodland

d)

Mississippian

6.

The bow and arrow was first used by the _____________ Indians.

a)

Archaic

b)

Paleo

c)

Woodland

d)

Mississippian

7.

The _____________ river forms the border between Alabama and Georgia.

a)

Tennessee River

b)

Alabama River

c)

Chattahoochee River

d)

Coosa River

8.

A throwing stick

a)

Atlatl

b)

Fossil

c)

Middens

d)

Chiefdoms

9.

Scientist who studies tools and other items left behind by past generations to learn about how they lived...

a)

Petroglyphs

b)

Palisades

c)

Archaeologists

d)

Prehistoric

10.

Groups of tribes with common goals and beliefs that unite for power.

a)

Middens

b)

Chiefdoms

c)

Palisades

d)

Inhabitants

11.

The wearing away of land by weather over a period of time.

a)

Migration

b)

Palisades

c)

Fossil

d)

Erosion

12.

The remains of a living things from a former geologic age.

a)

Middens

b)

Fossil

c)

Geologists

d)

Prehistoric

13.

People who live in a particular place

a)

Migration

b)

Chiefdoms

c)

Inhabitants

d)

Palisades

14.

Scientist who study rocks to learn about the earth.

a)

Archaeologists

b)

Palisades

c)

Prehistoric

d)

Geologists

15.

Refuse or garbage heaps

a)

Middens

b)

Palisades

c)

Chiefdoms

d)

Trash

16.

Moving from one region to another.

a)

Palisades

b)

Inhabitants

c)

Migration

d)

Prehistoric

17.

The period of time before history was written.

a)

Geologists

b)

Archaeologists

c)

Petroglyphs

d)

Prehistoric

18.

Rock carvings

a)

Petroglyphs

b)

Erosion

c)

Fossils

d)

Middens

19.

A fence of stakes set firmly in the ground to enclose or protect a place.

a)

Petroglyphs

b)

Middens

c)

Inhabitants

d)

Palisades

20.

What is NOT one of the 5 major geographic provinces (land regions) ?

a)

Highland Rim

b)

Cumberland Plateau

c)

Ridge and Valley

d)

Coastal Plain

e)

Tennessee Valley