WorksheetsAncient People of Ohio Test Review Gr 4
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5mins
The Ohio River is a tributary of the ___ .
Great Miami River
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Cuyahoga River
Archaeologists believe that the Fort Ancient People made the _____ Mound, which is an effigy of a snake in Adams County.
Royal Valley
Miamisburg
Earthworks
Great Serpent
One explanation scientists give for huge animals dying out during the Ice Age.
The temperature during the Ice Age was too cold for huge animals to survive
Animals couldn't adapt to the warmer temperatures at the end of the Ice Age.
Volcanoes and earthquakes destroyed lands where the huge animals lived.
Small animals took over the areas where the huge animals roamed and left no food for them to eat.
The lakes and rivers in Ohio were formed by __.
wind
glaciers
gravity
humans
The last Ice Age ended about ____.
1200 years ago
5,000 years ago
10,000 years ago
15,000 years ago
Archaeologists know that the Adena and the Hopewell traded with other groups because ____.
each group left records of their trade with other groups.
each group left drawings of trading with one another group of people
Written descriptions were left by the Late Woodland people describing the trading patterns of the Hopewell and Adena people.
artifacts from areas far from where the Adena and Hopewell lived were found in their burial mounds and village areas.
The development of agriculture made it possible for the Archaic Indians to ___.
settle in one place for longer periods of time.
attract more animals to hunt.
develop tools such as stone axes
trade with other groups
What is another name for a man-made lake?
tributary
plateau
descendant
reservoir
Some groups began to exchange, or ___ with other groups for resources they did not have.
adapt
trade
explore
steal
A tool used by early hunter gatherers was the ___ which helped them throw their spears harder and faster.
artifact
bow and arrow
atlatl
reservoir
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.
regions
ice canyons
plateaus
glaciers
This group was the first in the Americas to use agriculture as a way to have food to eat.
Historic Indians
Paleo Indians
European Settlers
Archaic Indians
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.
region
rivers
glacier
tributary
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.
atlatls
agriculture
arrows
artifacts
About how many years ago did the Archaic Indians live in Ohio?
about 2,500 years ago
about 5,000 years ago
about 10,000 years ago
about 15,000 years ago
Which of the following groups lived in what is now Ohio the most recently? (Closest to our present age)
Paleo- Indians
Archaic Indians
Hopewell
Adena
About how long ago did the Paleo-Indians arrive in Ohio?
about 15,000 years ago
about 12,000 years ago
about 10,000 years ago
about 7,000 years ago
Put the ancient Ohio groups in order form the earliest to the most recent.
Hopewell, Fort Ancient, Adena, and Late Woodland
Adena, Hopewell, Paleo-Indians, and Late Woodland
Paleo-Indians, Adena, Late Woodland and Hopewell
Eastern Woodland, Adena, Hopewell, Fort Ancient
Which of the group living in what is now Ohio did not build mounds?
Adena
Hopewell
Late Woodland
Fort Ancient People
Which group living in what is present-day Ohio were not descendants of the Adena or Hopewell cultures?
Archaic Indians
Fort Ancient Indians
Late Woodland Indians
Eastern Woodland Indians
