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Native Americans of New York Final Quiz

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the earliest people travel to North America?

a)

airplane

b)

walked

c)

dog sled

d)

small boat

2.

Where did the first people to reach North America travel from?

a)

Europe

b)

Asia

c)

Africa

d)

South America

3.

Someone who does not live permanently one place, someone who moves around to follow a food source.

a)

nomad

b)

hunter-gatherer

c)

Native American

d)

naturalist

4.

Someone who hunts for animals and gathers plants

a)

nomad

b)

hunter-gatherer

c)

Native American

d)

naturalist

5.

What did the first Native Americans travel across to get here?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Pacific Ocean

c)

Bering Strait Landbridge

d)

Bering Strait

6.

Which map below correctly shows the Bering Strait Landbridge would have been?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

How did farming change the lives of Native Americans?

a)

Farming allowed Native Americans to stop moving around and start building homes and villages.

b)

Farming allowed Native Americans to move around more easily.

c)

Farming allowed Native Americans to hunt more animals.

d)

Farming didn't change the lives of Native Americans.

8.

What three crops did many Native Americans grow together?

a)

beans, squash, apples

b)

apples, corn, squash

c)

corn, beans, squash

d)

apples, beans, corn

9.

What were the Three Sisters?

a)

three Native American godesses

b)

Three crops grown together (corn, beans, squash)

c)

Three leaders of Native American tribes

d)

Three crops grown together (corn, apples, beans)

10.

Why did the first people to come to North America come here?

a)

They were probably following a food source.

b)

They wanted to explore a new continent

c)

They were trying to escape a predator

d)

They were over crowded and wanted more space

11.

Native Americans used items found in nature. What do we call items found in nature that we use?

a)

natural resources

b)

man made resources

c)

crops

d)

animals

12.

What are some examples of natural resources?

a)

water, wood, rocks

b)

water, time, money

c)

computers, wood, rocks

d)

computers, money, pencils

13.

How have archeologists learned about early New Yorkers?

a)

By reading books written by the first New Yorkers?

b)

By studying artifacts such as spear points

c)

By reading letters the Native people wrote to eachother

d)

By talking to the relatives of early New Yorkers

14.

What was the main reason the Iroquois League of Nations was formed?

a)

To stop wars so the Iroquois would live together peacefully

b)

to help find a way to get food

c)

to stop threats from European explorers

d)

to discuss leaving the lands of New York

15.

Algonquians lived in

a)

longhouses

b)

teepees

c)

birch bark canoes

d)

wigwams

16.

Check all of the natural resources being used for shelter in the picture.

a)

wood or trees

b)

water

c)

sinew or vines

d)

deerskin

17.

Native Americans in this picture are using wood or trees for what?

a)

the frame of the longhouse

b)

The outerwalls of the longhouse

c)

for canoes

d)

for fires

18.

Native Americans in this picture are using sinew or vines for trees for what?

a)

the frame of the longhouse

b)

The outerwalls of the longhouse

c)

tying the frame together

d)

for the door covering

19.

Native Americans in this picture are using deerskin for trees for what?

a)

the frame of the longhouse

b)

The outerwalls of the longhouse

c)

tying the frame together

d)

for the door covering