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Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 23mins
What culture is considered the first civilization?
Cherokee
Crow
Olmec
Maya
How did the native people get to North America?
Land Bridge
Plane
Horseback
What animal did the native people follow to North America for food?
Elephants
Mammoths
Wolves
What happened to the land bridge the native people crossed?
It was covered with water
It exploded
It fell into a sinkhole
What did the Mound Builders build?
Mounds
Hills
Igloos
What river did the Mound Builders live near?
Ohio
Mississippi
Colorado
Identify the location of the Aztec
Central America
North America
New York
South American
Identify the location of the Inca
Mid-Central America
North America
Peru
New York
Identify the location of the Olmec
Peru
Venezuela
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Identify the location of the Maya
North America
Mexico
Central America
Mexico and Central America
There are theories that suggest people ____ to get to the Americas.
Crossed a land/ice bridge
Coastal migration
Following animal herds
All of the above
The word migrated means
moved from another place
traded with another group
stayed in the same place
What is the area where the land bridge is underwater today called?
Bering Strait
Water Channel
Asian Strait
The study of ancient people is called archeology
true
false
The tools, weapons, and art work of early people are called
archeology
nomad
carbon dating
artifacts
The land bridge that connected Asia and the Americas we called
Siberia
Antarctica
Alaska
Beringia
The crossing of the land bridge was a migration, a movement of a large number of people into a new area.
True
False
People who move from place to place in search of hunting grounds or food sources are called...
mastodons
nomads
cultures
wanderers
Which method of getting food changed the nomadic way of life?
hunting
gathering
fishing
farming
The Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca were highly developed societies, also called
artifacts
civilizations
quipus
hieroglyphics
The Aztec city Tenochtitlan was built on an island in Lake Texcoco after a group of the Aztec hunters saw a sign from their god.
True
False
The capital City of the Inca empire is
Cuzco
Tenochititlan
Topa Inca
MAchu picchu
To farm their mountains lands, the inca cut....., into the sides of the steeps terrains
artifacts
quipus
heiroglyphics
terraces
Which of the following has been a leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?
They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.
They swam across the Pacific Ocean from small islands.
They sailed from Europe to explore new lands.
They crossed glaciers that once linked Antarctica to South America.
What discovery made it possible to set up communities?
Fire
Weapons
Tectonic Plates
Farming
What is believed to have caused the land bridge to be exposed over 10,000 years ago?
The Olmec built it.
Glaciers formed during the Ice Age, causing the sea level to fall.
A drought caused the water to dry up so it was exposed.
There was no land bridge.
Who were the first people to cross the land bridge?
hunter-gatherers
Mayan
Olmec
Mound Builders
A group of people living together sharing trade, art, and religion is known as
city
town
civilization
adobe
What invention allowed people to settle into one place and not have to follow animals for food?
Wal-Mart
The ax
Corn
Farming
Which early civilizations were located in what is now Mexico?
Ancestral Pueblo
Mound Builders
Maya and Olmec
What early civilization developed a very accurate calendar that we still use today?
Maya
Olmec
Mound Builders
