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Ancient People of Ohio Test Review Gr 4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Ohio River is a tributary of the ___ .

a)

Great Miami River

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Missouri River

d)

Cuyahoga River

2.

Archaeologists believe that the Fort Ancient People made the _____ Mound, which is an effigy of a snake in Adams County.

a)

Royal Valley

b)

Miamisburg

c)

Earthworks

d)

Great Serpent

3.

One explanation scientists give for huge animals dying out during the Ice Age.

a)

The temperature during the Ice Age was too cold for huge animals to survive

b)

Animals couldn't adapt to the warmer temperatures at the end of the Ice Age.

c)

Volcanoes and earthquakes destroyed lands where the huge animals lived.

d)

Small animals took over the areas where the huge animals roamed and left no food for them to eat.

4.

The lakes and rivers in Ohio were formed by __.

a)

wind

b)

glaciers

c)

gravity

d)

humans

5.

The last Ice Age ended about ____.

a)

1200 years ago

b)

5,000 years ago

c)

10,000 years ago

d)

15,000 years ago

6.

Archaeologists know that the Adena and the Hopewell traded with other groups because ____.

a)

each group left records of their trade with other groups.

b)

each group left drawings of trading with one another group of people

c)

Written descriptions were left by the Late Woodland people describing the trading patterns of the Hopewell and Adena people.

d)

artifacts from areas far from where the Adena and Hopewell lived were found in their burial mounds and village areas.

7.

The development of agriculture made it possible for the Archaic Indians to ___.

a)

settle in one place for longer periods of time.

b)

attract more animals to hunt.

c)

develop tools such as stone axes

d)

trade with other groups

8.

What is another name for a man-made lake?

a)

tributary

b)

plateau

c)

descendant

d)

reservoir

9.

Some groups began to exchange, or ___ with other groups for resources they did not have.

a)

adapt

b)

trade

c)

explore

d)

steal

10.

A tool used by early hunter gatherers was the ___ which helped them throw their spears harder and faster.

a)

artifact

b)

bow and arrow

c)

atlatl

d)

reservoir

11.

As the climate became increasingly colder, giant sheets of moving ice, called ____, covered a large part of the earth and caused great changes to the landscape after thousands of years.

a)

regions

b)

ice canyons

c)

plateaus

d)

glaciers

12.

This group was the first in the Americas to use agriculture as a way to have food to eat.

a)

Historic Indians

b)

Paleo Indians

c)

European Settlers

d)

Archaic Indians

13.

About 12,000 years ago groups of Paleo-Indians arrived in the ___ that includes the Great Lakes States and areas found in present-day Ohio.

a)

region

b)

rivers

c)

glacier

d)

tributary

14.

Much of what is known about the early people of North America today comes from unearthing various ____ that were made by the hands of these early people.

a)

atlatls

b)

agriculture

c)

arrows

d)

artifacts

15.

About how many years ago did the Archaic Indians live in Ohio?

a)

about 2,500 years ago

b)

about 5,000 years ago

c)

about 10,000 years ago

d)

about 15,000 years ago

16.

Which of the following groups lived in what is now Ohio the most recently? (Closest to our present age)

a)

Paleo- Indians

b)

Archaic Indians

c)

Hopewell

d)

Adena

17.

About how long ago did the Paleo-Indians arrive in Ohio?

a)

about 15,000 years ago

b)

about 12,000 years ago

c)

about 10,000 years ago

d)

about 7,000 years ago

18.

Put the ancient Ohio groups in order form the earliest to the most recent.

a)

Hopewell, Fort Ancient, Adena, and Late Woodland

b)

Adena, Hopewell, Paleo-Indians, and Late Woodland

c)

Paleo-Indians, Adena, Late Woodland and Hopewell

d)

Eastern Woodland, Adena, Hopewell, Fort Ancient

19.

Which of the group living in what is now Ohio did not build mounds?

a)

Adena

b)

Hopewell

c)

Late Woodland

d)

Fort Ancient People

20.

Which group living in what is present-day Ohio were not descendants of the Adena or Hopewell cultures?

a)

Archaic Indians

b)

Fort Ancient Indians

c)

Late Woodland Indians

d)

Eastern Woodland Indians