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TEAM TRIVIA!

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the central food in the Mesoamerican diet?

a)

Barley

b)

Wheat

c)

Corn

d)

Rice

2.

Check ALL of the Mesoamerican foods below

a)

Maize

b)

Avocados

c)

Flour

d)

Squash

e)

Beans

3.

What was corn used for?

a)

Husks for clothing called olenavie

b)

A porridge called atole or capia

c)

A bread called glyphs or quinoa

d)

A form of currency (money)

4.

What food was most frequently eaten with meals?

a)

beans and rice

b)

avocado corn toast

c)

flour tortillas

d)

corn tortillas

e)

beans and stew

5.

How was drinking chocolate most commonly prepared?

a)

Alone as a sweet and luxurious drink

b)

Spiced with chili peppers and spices

c)

Sweetened with sugar and goat milk

d)

Flavored with vanilla and served on the farm

6.

What was used as currency?

a)

corn

b)

shells

c)

cocoa beans

d)

painted beans

7.

How were most crops grown?

a)

Large fields with many crops

b)

Small fields with one crop

c)

Large fields with one crop

d)

Small fields with many crops

e)

Most were harvested in the jungles

8.

What made the Mayan's successful farmers?

a)

access to water

b)

knowledge of stars and weather

c)

knowledge of math and geometry

d)

knowledge of favorable gods

9.

Digging small canals to create islands to farm on was known as

a)

Raised fields

b)

Fish farming

c)

Terrace Farming

d)

Slash and burn

10.

Building walls to make small, flat fields on top of one another like steps is known as

a)

Raised field

b)

Terrace farming

c)

Slash and burn

d)

Laddered farms

11.

Cutting and burning jungle, then mixing ash into the soil, is known as

a)

Raised field

b)

Terrace farming

c)

Slash and burn

d)

Pyroagriculture

12.

True or false: The Mesoamericans were a vegetarian civilization

a)

true

b)

false

13.

Check ALL of the mesoamerican foods below

a)

dogs

b)

cows

c)

cats

d)

ducks

e)

grasshoppers

14.

What animals were raised for meat? CHECK ALL that apply

a)

Cows

b)

llamas

c)

ducks

d)

turkeys

e)

pics

15.

What were the largest animals that were hunted for food?

a)

peccary and deer

b)

deer and moose

c)

wolves and jaguars

d)

peccary and cows

e)

jaguars and turkey

16.

True or false: fish and shellfish were an important part of the Mesoamerican diet

a)

true

b)

false

17.

Hunting and war weapons (that we have seen so far) were

a)

non-existent

b)

made of iron and steel

c)

made of fiber, stone, and wood

d)

replicas of Assyrian hunting tools