WorksheetsReview: Prehistory - The First People in America
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
Select the ways in which people from 40,000 BCE obtained their food.
Hunted
Fished
Farmed
Picked
Which of the following could describe how nomads found their food before creating hunting tools?
Killed the animals without weapons.
Ate remnants of what was left over after animals finished their meals.
They starved.
Which continent did the first people to reach the Americas originate from?
Asia
North America
South America
Africa
The process in which some one or some thing moves from place to place.
(a)
Many nomads were able to travel easily because large portions of the oceans were covered in this.
(a)
The scientific name from the piece of land that connected what is now modern-day Alaska and the northeast tip of Russia.
Beringia
Bering Strait
Bering Land Bridge
Bering Bay
Why did many animals from the Ice Age go extinct?
Water covered the land bridge
Disease
War
Famine
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)
When tribes began to settle down, which of the following changes were made?
They created permanent houses.
They created temporary houses.
They began planting foods they could harvest and eat.
They scavenged for food.
The order in which ancient Mesoamerican civilizations arose.
OMAI
MAIO
MAOI
OMIA
Which of the following ancient civilizations used humans as sacrifices?
Olmecs
Maya
Aztecs
Incas
Which of the following ancient civilizations created a calendar similar to the one we use today?
Olmecs
Maya
Aztecs
Incas
Which of the following ancient civilizations took place in what is now modern-day Peru?
Olmecs
Maya
Aztecs
Incas
The type of farming the Incas used in order to create larger harvests.
(a)
This ancient civilization used to worship gods of the elements.
(a)
