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California's First People U2C3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of the period when Earth's climate became cold?

a)

The Frozone

b)

The Winter Solstice

c)

The Ice Age

d)

The Frozen Age

2.

What was the name of the land bridge that people crossed over to get to North America?

a)

Beringia

b)

Jumanji

c)

Kilamanjaro

d)

Baring Strait

3.

Fill in the blank: Over time, people living in California (a)   to their surroundings.

4.

How did people adapt to their surroundings?

a)

People living by the water made tools for fishing and drying fish.

b)

People living by the mountains made quesadillas.

c)

People living in forests learned how to turn acorns into flour.

d)

People living in the desert learned how to make helicopter.

5.

Select all of the regions that belong to the Six Cultural Areas.

a)

Mountain West

b)

Great Basin

c)

California Basin

d)

Northwestern

e)

Colorado River

6.

True or False: California has the largest population of Native American people.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

True or False: American Indian women would typically be in charge of hunting and fishing.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The Chumash lived by the...

a)

mountains

b)

coast

c)

forest

d)

desert

9.

What was the name of the boats the Chumash made?

(a)  

10.

In what culture area did the Yokuts live?

a)

Central

b)

Great Basin

c)

Southern

d)

Northwestern

11.

Where were pit houses built?

a)

In caves

b)

Underground

c)

In trees

d)

On the coast

12.

True or false: The Northern Paiute lived along the California and Nevada border.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The Northern Paiute lived a nomadic lifestyle. This meant they...

a)

Only ate Tacobell Doritos locos tacos

b)

Moved around a lot and didn't live in one place

c)

Believed that fish should not be eaten

d)

All lived in one house

14.

The (a)   Desert is named after this tribe.

15.

True or false: The Mojave tried their best to avoid war.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Each tribe passed down stories from generation to generation called...

a)

bed time stories

b)

spooky scary skeleton stories

c)

creation stories

d)

sigma stories

17.

One of the most important foods to the Yurok is...

a)

Mountain Dew Baja Blast

b)

trout

c)

salmon

d)

tuna

18.

True or false: Wealth was not important to the Yurok.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Which of the following foods were important to the Modoc?

a)

trout

b)

borgor king

c)

salmon

d)

Yellow pond lily seeds

20.

Before going on a hunt, Modoc men would spend time in...

a)

a sweathouse

b)

a tribal room

c)

Disneyland

d)

The Great Forest