Font size
WorksheetsWeekly Check 9/24/21
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
This week you watched an installment of CNN 10. As many as 14,000 migrants are camped under a bridge in Texas. The migrants fled an earthquake in which country?
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Mexico
Panama
What was the "tragic mistake" you learned about this week on CNN 10?
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
The U.S. military killed innocent people in a drone strike in Afghanistan
Modified Football Team Bonding at Buffalo Wild Wings
The glaciers melted and ocean levels rose
TRUE or FALSE: Four civilians just became the first crew to enter space without a "professional" astronaut on board.
TRUE
FALSE
Which Asian country has limited electricity, but who's people still love their "Dear Leader"?
South Korea
Vietnam
Japan
North Korea
In which country did Osama Bin laden and Al-Qaeda run training camps to prepare the terrorists that carried out the 9/11 attacks?
Iran
Iraq
Pakistan
Afganistan
When did the war in Afghanistan end?
Last month
Last year
2002
2011
TRUE or FALSE: The war in Afghanistan is America's longest war.
TRUE
FALSE
Where did the first humans come from?
Asia
Africa
Beekmantown
Europe
What is it called when people move from one place to another with the intention of living in the new place permanently?
Human Migration
Vacation
Stay-Cation
Corona-Cation
Searching for food, natural disasters like floods and wildfires, disease, and warfare are all:
Reasons for global warming
Reasons to vote this year
Reasons that humans have migrated
Reasons for remote learning
Which of the following is NOT a MAJOR reason for migration?
Lack of Food
Visiting Family
Plague
Natural Disaster
Factors that encourage or force people to move AWAY from the place they live are known as:
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Factors that encourage people to move TO a new place are known as:
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Which two of the following are push factors regarding migration?
Surplus of food
War
Volcanic Eruption
Weather you enjoy
The Earthquake in Haiti is an example of which type of factor?
Push
Pull
Objects made, used, or modified by humans are known as:
Artifacts
Artisans
Technology
Culture
The study of human artifacts to understand the past is known as
Archaeology
Astronomy
Paleontology
Common Core Math
Select the best answer - This cave painting is a an example of
Color by numbers
Vision board
an Artifact
7th grade artwork
Social Scientists who study artifacts to learn about the past are called:
Psychologists
Historians
Archaeologists
Geographers
Radiocarbon Dating is used
by teens to meet each other during the pandemic
by scientists to determine the age of human remains and artifacts containing carbon
mostly by old people to get the news
as a substitute for a corona test
A period of extreme cold lasting thousands of years is known as:
Ice Age
Middle School Dance
2020
Social Studies
What is Beringia?
The land bridge
A headless robot dog
A therapeutic being used to treat Covid
The name given to an 11,000 year old human skeleton discovered in South America
What is "THE Corridor"?
The new Kevin Bacon movie
An island in the South Pacific
The passage way through the glacier that we think early people entered North America through
Where you go when you've been bad
This graphic shows two theories of human migration to the Americas. The arrow on the right represents which path of migration?
Over the hill
Through the woods
Along the coast
Through the corridor
Which route did early people take to migrate to North & South America?
Over the land bridge and through the corridor
Over the land bridge and along the coast
By boat
We think early people used all three of these routes
The land bridge was located between Alaska and Russia, but today it is underwater. Why is that?
Glaciers formed on land and the sea level went down
Glaciers melted and sea levels rose
The Russians sunk it
A volcanic eruption destroyed it
