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Unit 2: North America - Early Indian Cultures

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the route that early Native Americans used to travel from Asia to North America?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Middle Passage

c)

Northwest Passage

d)

Silk Road

e)

Route 66

2.

According to most archeological findings, from which continent did every human's DNA originate?

a)

Africa

b)

Australia

c)

Europe

d)

South America

e)

North America

3.

Which of the following geographic areas is responsible for the migration of early human migrants into North America from Asia.

a)

Mount Everest

b)

Mississippi River

c)

Beringia Land Bridge

d)

Mediterranean Sea

e)

Hoover Dam

4.

The land route taken by early Americans is an example of which of the 5 Themes of Geography?

a)

Location

b)

Regions

c)

Ecosystems

d)

Place

e)

Movement

5.

Which of the 50 United States of America is named after an African Queen?

a)

Virginia

b)

California

c)

Georgia

d)

Idaho

e)

Florida

6.

Which of the following examples of human geography were constructed by the Mississippians?

a)

Stone Apartments

b)

Seafaring Ships

c)

Pyramids

d)

Burial Mounds

e)

Walls

7.

What was the political system of the Iroquois?

a)

Fascism

b)

Theocracy

c)

Confederacy

d)

Monopoly

e)

Communist

8.

What were the achievements of the Ancestral Puebloans?

a)

Constructing Stone Apartments

b)

Growing large corn crops

c)

Taming horses

d)

Hunting Sabretooth tigers

e)

Navigating nearby Oceans

9.

Which two areas were one connected by a large frozen land bridge during the last Ice Age?

a)

Florida and Cuba

b)

Hawaii and Japan

c)

France and England

d)

Alaska and Siberia

e)

China and Taiwan

10.

The first Spanish explorers to North America mistook the peninsula of Baja California for a __________________.

a)

coast of Africa

b)

single island

c)

coral reef

d)

forest

e)

collection of seaweed.

11.

Which of the following groups was not a part of the Iroquois League?

a)

The Mohawks

b)

Senaca

c)

Onondaga

d)

Cayuga

e)

They are all part of the Iroquois League.

12.

Which of the following national monuments is positioned on land that legally belongs to the Sioux Indian tribes?

a)

Washington Monument

b)

Arlington Cemetery

c)

Pearl Harbor WWII Museum

d)

Mount Rushmore

e)

None of the above

13.

(True or False)

The Ancestral Puebloans dealt with drought as a result of where they were geographically.

a)

True

b)

False