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Review: Prehistory - The First People in America

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the ways in which people from 40,000 BCE obtained their food.

a)

Hunted

b)

Fished

c)

Farmed

d)

Picked

2.

Which of the following could describe how nomads found their food before creating hunting tools?

a)

Killed the animals without weapons.

b)

Ate remnants of what was left over after animals finished their meals.

c)

They starved.

3.

Which continent did the first people to reach the Americas originate from?

a)

Asia

b)

North America

c)

South America

d)

Africa

4.

The process in which some one or some thing moves from place to place.

(a)  

5.

Many nomads were able to travel easily because large portions of the oceans were covered in this.

(a)  

6.

The scientific name from the piece of land that connected what is now modern-day Alaska and the northeast tip of Russia.

a)

Beringia

b)

Bering Strait

c)

Bering Land Bridge

d)

Bering Bay

7.

Why did many animals from the Ice Age go extinct?

a)

Water covered the land bridge

b)

Disease

c)

War

d)

Famine

8.

When people first arrived in the Americas, they began breaking off into their own tribes. This led to the creation of many different types of...

(a)  

9.

When tribes began to settle down, which of the following changes were made?

a)

They created permanent houses.

b)

They created temporary houses.

c)

They began planting foods they could harvest and eat.

d)

They scavenged for food.

10.

The order in which ancient Mesoamerican civilizations arose.

a)

OMAI

b)

MAIO

c)

MAOI

d)

OMIA

11.

Which of the following ancient civilizations used humans as sacrifices?

a)

Olmecs

b)

Maya

c)

Aztecs

d)

Incas

12.

Which of the following ancient civilizations created a calendar similar to the one we use today?

a)

Olmecs

b)

Maya

c)

Aztecs

d)

Incas

13.

Which of the following ancient civilizations took place in what is now modern-day Peru?

a)

Olmecs

b)

Maya

c)

Aztecs

d)

Incas

14.

The type of farming the Incas used in order to create larger harvests.

(a)  

15.

This ancient civilization used to worship gods of the elements.

(a)