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WorksheetsThe First Americans
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 19mins
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Class
Date
1.
How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the Ice Age?
a)
sailed across a narrow strait
b)
traveled south from Canada
c)
Traveled across a land bridge
d)
sailed to Mexico and drifted north
2.
Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas?
a)
searching for food
b)
to locate farmland
c)
flee from hostile tribes
d)
search for a better climate
3.
What is the most important to the survival of the American Indians?
a)
home ownership
b)
trading with other tribes for needs
c)
ability to use natural resorces
d)
warm and mild climate
4.
Which of these best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America?
a)
believing they were part of a community of living things
b)
groups choose where to live based on special skills
c)
groups needed to separate themselves from others
d)
groups adapted to the environment where they settled
5.
Plains Indians wore clothing made from animal hides. What activity was most important to them?
a)
believing they were part of a community of living things
b)
mining
c)
hunting
d)
gathering
6.
Which of these describes one way American Indians adapted the environment to meet their needs?
a)
believing they were part of a community of living things
b)
SW people made things with corn
c)
Great Plains people made clothing from animals
d)
Eastern Woodlands people burned trees to plant corn
7.
Which of these was a strong influence on the kind of shelters used by each Indian group?
a)
wealth
b)
climate
c)
religion
d)
education
8.
Which of these enabled American Indians to settle in permanent villages?
a)
trading
b)
hunting
c)
herding
d)
farming
9.
How do historians learn how American Indians lived so long ago?
a)
They speak to their families.
b)
They read their journals.
c)
They study their artifacts.
d)
They live in their shelters.
10.
Beringia was a
a)
narrow body of water
b)
lost city
c)
land bridge
d)
ancient civilization
11.
When someone or something migrates they....
a)
Make Pizza for the family
b)
Have a feast in which the guests receive gifts.
c)
Move from one place to another.
d)
share several houses.
12.
A totem pole is:
a)
A tree Trunk that is carved with sacred images
b)
A cone shaped tent made from animal hides.
c)
A home shared by several related Iroquois families.
13.
A group is called nomadic if it ...
a)
lives in an isolated area.
b)
moves from place to place.
c)
owns very few possessions.
d)
makes war on its neighbors.
14.
A _______ is a set of beliefs and way of life that is special to a certain group.
a)
migrate
b)
culture
c)
irrigation
d)
religion
15.
Many American Indians Relied on ________ to make decissions.
a)
Councils
b)
Democracy
c)
Irrigation
d)
Culture
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