WorksheetsNorth America and Louisiana's Peoples
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which detail belongs in the Clovis culture circle?
a) traveled by boat to North America
b) hunted mammoths and mastodons
c) planted crops like corn and squash
d) lived in the mountains during the winter
Which detail belongs in the Folsom culture circle?
a) used mastodon hides for clothing and shelter
b) developed a sophisticated social structure
c) lived in permanent settlements all year
d) made very large spearpoints
Which detail belongs in the center of the diagram?
a) chose shamans as leaders
b) built homes on frozen ice sheets
c) performed ceremonial rain rituals
d) hunted game with spears and atlatls
Which details belong in the Ancestral Pueblo column? Select the two correct answers.
a) built cliff dwellings using stone and adobe
b) made a coarse flour from seeds and grains
c) created underground ceremonial chambers
d) learned how to grow corn in parts of Mexico
d) learned how to grow corn in parts of Mexico
Which detail belongs in the Mound Builders column?
a) used baskets to heap large piles of dirt
b) made shoes out of yucca and other plants
c) carved canoes out of trees for transportation
d) did not practice any identifiable religious beliefs
Which culture formed mostly to the east of the Mississippi River?
a) Clovis culture
b) Folsom culture
c) Ancestral Pueblo
d) Mound Builders
These petroglyphs may tell the story of an important hunt. Which detail from the photograph
supports this idea?
a) the footprints
b) the wiggly lines
c) the figure throwing a spear
d) the figure with a large head
How did agriculture change civilizations in North America?
a) It made them abandon religion.
b) It made them hunter-gatherers.
c) It made them travel by boat overseas.
d) It made them create permanent settlements.
Where did the first settlers who arrived in North America by boat land?
a) Atlantic coast
b) Gulf of Mexico
c) Caribbean Sea
d) Pacific coast
What is one reason the Mound Builders built mounds?
a)to bury their dead
b) to hide their location
c) to trade with other cultures
d) to communicate with neighbors
