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Weekly Check 9/24/21

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

Haiti

b)

Dominican Republic

c)

Mexico

d)

Panama

2.

What was the "tragic mistake" you learned about this week on CNN 10?

a)

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

b)

The U.S. military killed innocent people in a drone strike in Afghanistan

c)

Modified Football Team Bonding at Buffalo Wild Wings

d)

The glaciers melted and ocean levels rose

3.

TRUE or FALSE: Four civilians just became the first crew to enter space without a "professional" astronaut on board.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

4.

Which Asian country has limited electricity, but who's people still love their "Dear Leader"?

a)

South Korea

b)

Vietnam

c)

Japan

d)

North Korea

5.

In which country did Osama Bin laden and Al-Qaeda run training camps to prepare the terrorists that carried out the 9/11 attacks?

a)

Iran

b)

Iraq

c)

Pakistan

d)

Afganistan

6.

When did the war in Afghanistan end?

a)

Last month

b)

Last year

c)

2002

d)

2011

7.

TRUE or FALSE: The war in Afghanistan is America's longest war.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

8.

Where did the first humans come from?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Beekmantown

d)

Europe

9.

What is it called when people move from one place to another with the intention of living in the new place permanently?

a)

Human Migration

b)

Vacation

c)

Stay-Cation

d)

Corona-Cation

10.

Searching for food, natural disasters like floods and wildfires, disease, and warfare are all:

a)

Reasons for global warming

b)

Reasons to vote this year

c)

Reasons that humans have migrated

d)

Reasons for remote learning

11.

Which of the following is NOT a MAJOR reason for migration?

a)

Lack of Food

b)

Visiting Family

c)

Plague

d)

Natural Disaster

12.

Factors that encourage or force people to move AWAY from the place they live are known as:

a)

Push Factors

b)

Pull Factors

13.

Factors that encourage people to move TO a new place are known as:

a)

Push Factors

b)

Pull Factors

14.

Which two of the following are push factors regarding migration?

a)

Surplus of food

b)

War

c)

Volcanic Eruption

d)

Weather you enjoy

15.

The Earthquake in Haiti is an example of which type of factor?

a)

Push

b)

Pull

16.

Objects made, used, or modified by humans are known as:

a)

Artifacts

b)

Artisans

c)

Technology

d)

Culture

17.

The study of human artifacts to understand the past is known as

a)

Archaeology

b)

Astronomy

c)

Paleontology

d)

Common Core Math

18.

Select the best answer - This cave painting is a an example of

a)

Color by numbers

b)

Vision board

c)

an Artifact

d)

7th grade artwork

19.

Social Scientists who study artifacts to learn about the past are called:

a)

Psychologists

b)

Historians

c)

Archaeologists

d)

Geographers

20.

Radiocarbon Dating is used

a)

by teens to meet each other during the pandemic

b)

by scientists to determine the age of human remains and artifacts containing carbon

c)

mostly by old people to get the news

d)

as a substitute for a corona test

21.

A period of extreme cold lasting thousands of years is known as:

a)

Ice Age

b)

Middle School Dance

c)

2020

d)

Social Studies

22.

What is Beringia?

a)

The land bridge

b)

A headless robot dog

c)

A therapeutic being used to treat Covid

d)

The name given to an 11,000 year old human skeleton discovered in South America

23.

What is "THE Corridor"?

a)

The new Kevin Bacon movie

b)

An island in the South Pacific

c)

The passage way through the glacier that we think early people entered North America through

d)

Where you go when you've been bad

24.

This graphic shows two theories of human migration to the Americas. The arrow on the right represents which path of migration?

a)

Over the hill

b)

Through the woods

c)

Along the coast

d)

Through the corridor

25.

Which route did early people take to migrate to North & South America?

a)

Over the land bridge and through the corridor

b)

Over the land bridge and along the coast

c)

By boat

d)

We think early people used all three of these routes

26.

The land bridge was located between Alaska and Russia, but today it is underwater. Why is that?

a)

Glaciers formed on land and the sea level went down

b)

Glaciers melted and sea levels rose

c)

The Russians sunk it

d)

A volcanic eruption destroyed it