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Michigan's First People

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

After the glaciers melted,

what came across the land bridge

to North America first?

a)

Animals

b)

Water

c)

Europeans

d)

Paleo-Indians

2.

What does PALEO-Indians mean?

a)

Old or Early

b)

First

c)

Ancient

d)

European

3.

What do ARCHAEOLOGISTS study?

a)

Things left from the past

b)

Indians

c)

Glaciers

d)

Climate

4.

What animal did Paleo-Indians hunt?

a)

Caribou

b)

Deer

c)

Rabbit

d)

Bear

5.

The HOPEWELL were most well-known for what?

a)

Building Mounds

b)

Building Legos

c)

Hunting Caribou

d)

Fishing

6.

Similar art, beliefs and customs are...

a)

Culture

b)

Artifacts

c)

Tribes

d)

Important

7.

What are ARTIFACTS?

a)

Things made or used by people in the past

b)

Supplies left over after Art class

c)

Art, beliefs and customs

d)

Information you memorize

8.

Lines of LATITUDE measure

a)

NORTH or SOUTH

b)

EAST or WEST

c)

RIGHT or WRONG

d)

HIGH or LOW

9.

Lines of LONGITUDE measure

a)

EAST or WEST

b)

NORTH or SOUTH

c)

DAY or NIGHT

d)

NAUGHTY or NICE

10.

The Equator is __ degrees

a)

0

b)

100

c)

180

d)

90

11.

The center line of longitude is called the

a)

Equator

b)

Prime Meridian

c)

Skippy

d)

Grid

12.

What does MIGRATE mean?

a)

Move from one place to settle in another

b)

Build mounds to bury the dead

c)

Study things from the past

d)

Thin sliced cheese

13.

Who were the THREE FIRES?

a)

Ojibway, Odawa, Potawatomi

b)

Omo, Bear, Meyer

c)

Ojibway, Hopewell, Potawatomi

d)

Alvin, Simon, Theodore

14.

What is a CONFEDERACY?

a)

A group with a common purpose

b)

People who study things from the past

c)

Mound builders

d)

You are almost done with this Quiz!

15.

The Three Fires lived in rounded homes called

a)

Wigwams

b)

Tee Pees

c)

Igloos

d)

School Buses

16.

Children had the same totem as their

_____________

a)

Father

b)

Mother

c)

Grandfather

d)

Friend

17.

What band were fisherman?

a)

Ojibway

b)

Odawa

c)

Potawatomi

d)

Hopewell

18.

Odawa means

a)

Trade

b)

Farm

c)

Fish

d)

Candy

19.

The Potawatomi were

a)

Fisherman

b)

Farmers

c)

Traders

d)

Awesome

20.

How did the Huron get along with the Iroquois?

a)

They were enemies

b)

They were friends

c)

They were brothers

d)

They played Gaga Ball together

21.

The Huron lived in

a)

Longhouses

b)

Wigwams

c)

Tee Pees

d)

Mansions

22.

The Huron way of life was based on

a)

Kinship/Family

b)

Farming/Fishing

c)

Hunting/Fighting

d)

Video Games/Cell Phones