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Social Studies Chapter 3- Native Americans

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is an artifact?

a)

skeleton

b)

spearhead

c)

trilobites

d)

leaf prints

2.

What happens at an archaeological site?

a)

Paleontologists disagree about how people live.

b)

Scientists re-create what they think life was long ago.

c)

Scientists search for the remains of things from long ago.

d)

Scientists search for the Bering Strait.

3.

Why are artifacts important to an archaeologist?

a)

They give clues of how people lived.

b)

They show show animals became extinct.

c)

They provide information about weather long ago.

d)

They contain information about how people arrived in USA.

4.

A trilobite is

a)

an extinct underwater plant

b)

a small dinosaur with wings

c)

an extinct shelled animal

d)

an artifact

5.

What kind of climate did Pennsylvania have 300 million years ago?

a)

cold and wet

b)

cold and dry

c)

warm and dry

d)

warm and wet

6.

Where were most of Pennsylvania’s fossilized remains found?

a)

in sand

b)

in coal beds

c)

under water

d)

in caves

7.

During the Pennsylvanian Period, where did animals live?

a)

on dry, flat land

b)

on rocky cliffs

c)

in dense forests

d)

in the mountains

8.

Which of the following is NOT a fossil?

a)

shells

b)

cooking pots

c)

skeletons

d)

footprint

9.

Compared to today’s plants and animals, those of the Pennsylvanian Period were

a)

younger

b)

colder

c)

larger

d)

smaller

10.

To learn more about the past, a paleontologist studies

a)

artifacts

b)

glaciers

c)

fossils

d)

land bridges

11.

At Meadowcroft Rockshelter scientists found

a)

evidence of only plant life.

b)

many plant and animal remains.

c)

many skeletons

d)

many trilobites

12.

How did climate after the Ice Age influence Native American settlement in North America?

a)

It did not influence the Native Americans from settling.

b)

It was hot and dry so they had to search for food.

c)

North America was a place where they could live comfortably.

d)

Native Americans needed a cooler climate for hunting.

13.

Why was Pennsylvania a good place for Native Americans to settle 3,000 years ago?

a)

Fishing was popular there.

b)

There were many houses.

c)

It had rich soil for growing crops.

d)

It had a transportation system.

14.

How did farming change the way Native Americans lived?

a)

They no longer had to fish.

b)

They had to search for food.

c)

They could settle in villages.

d)

It did not change the way in which they lived.

15.

Which of these was NOT part of the Algonquian group and did not share a common language?

a)

Shawnee

b)

Iroquois

c)

Delaware

d)

Lenni Lenape

16.

Tamanend was a leader of the

a)

Susquehannock.

b)

Iroquois

c)

Shawnee

d)

Lenni Lenape

17.

The Susquehannock lived in villages of longhouses surrounded by

a)

wigwams

b)

wampum

c)

tunnels

d)

palisades

18.

What was the Iroquois League of Five Nations?

a)

an important system of Native American government

b)

a kind of wampum

c)

a group that included the Susquehannock

d)

a group of Native Americans who fought among themselves

19.

Why did the Shawnee refer to the Lenni Lenape as their “grandfather”?

a)

because the two groups shared the same longhouses.

b)

because the Lenni Lenape were older.

c)

to show how much they had in common with the Lenni Lenape

d)

to show the differences between the two groups