WorksheetsCalifornia's First People U2C3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was the name of the period when Earth's climate became cold?
The Frozone
The Winter Solstice
The Ice Age
The Frozen Age
What was the name of the land bridge that people crossed over to get to North America?
Beringia
Jumanji
Kilamanjaro
Baring Strait
Fill in the blank: Over time, people living in California (a) to their surroundings.
How did people adapt to their surroundings?
People living by the water made tools for fishing and drying fish.
People living by the mountains made quesadillas.
People living in forests learned how to turn acorns into flour.
People living in the desert learned how to make helicopter.
Select all of the regions that belong to the Six Cultural Areas.
Mountain West
Great Basin
California Basin
Northwestern
Colorado River
True or False: California has the largest population of Native American people.
True
False
True or False: American Indian women would typically be in charge of hunting and fishing.
True
False
The Chumash lived by the...
mountains
coast
forest
desert
What was the name of the boats the Chumash made?
(a)
In what culture area did the Yokuts live?
Central
Great Basin
Southern
Northwestern
Where were pit houses built?
In caves
Underground
In trees
On the coast
True or false: The Northern Paiute lived along the California and Nevada border.
True
False
The Northern Paiute lived a nomadic lifestyle. This meant they...
Only ate Tacobell Doritos locos tacos
Moved around a lot and didn't live in one place
Believed that fish should not be eaten
All lived in one house
The (a) Desert is named after this tribe.
True or false: The Mojave tried their best to avoid war.
True
False
Each tribe passed down stories from generation to generation called...
bed time stories
spooky scary skeleton stories
creation stories
sigma stories
One of the most important foods to the Yurok is...
Mountain Dew Baja Blast
trout
salmon
tuna
True or false: Wealth was not important to the Yurok.
True
False
Which of the following foods were important to the Modoc?
trout
borgor king
salmon
Yellow pond lily seeds
Before going on a hunt, Modoc men would spend time in...
a sweathouse
a tribal room
Disneyland
The Great Forest
