Earliest Americans

Question 1

Q: This is the period in Earth’s history when huge sheets of ice covered large parts of Earth’s surface?

Answer 1

A: Ice Age

Question 2

Q: What is a small strip of land that connects two large land masses?

Answer 2

A: Land Bridge

Question 3

Q: What was the land bridge that connected Asia and North America?

Answer 3

A: Beringia

Question 4

Q: Why can’t people walk from Asia to North America today?

Answer 4

A: Beringia is underwater

Question 5

Q: What were the small groups who fed themselves by hunting and gathering plants called?

Answer 5

A: Hunter-gatherers

Question 6

Q: What are the prehistoric elephant-like animals called?

Answer 6

A: Mammoths and mastodons

Question 7

Q: What are the early hunters that had no permanent homes and followed herds of animals called?

Answer 7

A: Nomads

Question 8

Q: Today, how do scientists believe the earliest Americans arrived in the Americas from Asia?

Answer 8

A: By boat on the Pacific Ocean.

Question 9

Q: Why couldn’t the first settlers in North America move very far inland?

Answer 9

A: There were huge ice sheets in the way.

Question 10

Q: At the end of the ice age, what happened when all of the ice began to melt?

Answer 10

A: The oceans rose.

Question 11

Q: What made it possible for the Nomads in the Americas to stay in place for long periods of time?

Answer 11

A: They learned to farm.

Question 12

Q: What was the first crop the Native Americans in Mexico learned how to grow?

Answer 12

A: Corn/Maize

Question 13

What are the soft, colorful lights that appear in the northern lands?

Answer 13

The Northern Lights

Question 14

What is another name for the northern land where the Inuit people lived.

Answer 14

Frozen Desert

Question 15

T or F: The Inuit people are related to the Beringian hunter-gatherers.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

What does the word Inuit mean?

Answer 16

the people

Question 17

Since there are no trees in the Arctic, the Inuit used ______________.

Answer 17

driftwood

Question 18

T or F: The Inuit made fishhooks, knives, and other small tools from bones and flint.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

What shelters did the Inuit build?

Answer 19

igloos

Question 20

What kind of boats did the Inuit travel on?

Answer 20

kayaks

Question 21

How did the Inuit carry heavy loads.

Answer 21

on sleds pulled by dogs

Question 22

What is a native person who lives on a rock ledge or cliff wall?

Answer 22

cliff dweller

Question 23

What is a deep valley between mountains, cut through the rock by river water?

Answer 23

canyon

Question 24

What years did the elders worry that there would not be enough food?

Answer 24

dry years

Question 24

What were the years where the corn grows tall and the squash grows thick known as?

Answer 24

wet years

Question 25

Which cliff dwelling native Americans who lived in the American Southwest?

Answer 25

Pueblo

Question 26

Today's Pueblo live in where the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet?

Answer 26

The Four Corners

Question 27

The Ancestral Pueblo were skilled basket weavers and potters.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

What is the brick that the Ancient Pueblo used to make their buildings?

Answer 28

adobe

Question 29

What Native Americans built buildings and houses on large heaps of dirt?

Answer 29

Mound Builders

Question 30

How did the mound builders build the mounds?

Answer 30

They used baskets to collect the dirt and heaped it into huge piles.

Question 31

How did many of the Mound Dwellers die?

Answer 31

The Europeans brought diseases with them that they couldn't fight off.

Question 32

In Spanish, what does the word pueblo mean?

Answer 32

village

Question 33

Why do scientists believe that the Pueblo people are related to the ancient Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellers?

Answer 33

Their houses looked similar.

Question 34

What did the Hopi natives build their houses on?

Answer 34

mesas

Question 35

Why did the Hopi build their houses on the tops of mesas?

Answer 35

To protect themselves from enemy attacks.

Question 36

How did the Hopi get to different levels of their homes?

Answer 36

ladders

Question 37

What does the word Hopi mean?

Answer 37

peaceful people

Question 38

Today, most of the Hopi live in the state of ________________.

Answer 38

Arizona

Question 39

T or F: The Hopi and the Zuni are both Pueblo.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

T or F: Even though they are both descendants of the Ancient Pueblo, the Hopi and Zuni speak the same language.

Answer 40

False

Question 41

The Navajo's call themselves Dine' which means _____________.

Answer 41

the people

Question 42

Which tribe built domed houses out of adobe?

Answer 42

Navajo

Question 43

What European country introduced horses and sheep to North America?

Answer 43

Spain

Question 44

Who makes up the largest Native American nation in the United States?

Answer 44

Navajo

Question 45

What dwellings did the Apache make with buffalo hides?

Answer 45

tepees

Question 46

Who were the only Native Americans more powerful than the Apache?

Answer 46

Comanche

Question 47

What figurative phrase was coined when the Apache made peace with the Spaniards?

Answer 47

burying the hatchet

Question 48

What tribes were expert horse riders?

Answer 48

Apache and Comanche

Question 49

Why did the Mound Builders' way of life end in the 1500s and 1600s?

Answer 49

The Europeans brought diseases that they couldn't fight off.

Question 50

What word means a loosely organized group of states or tribes.

Answer 50

confederacy

Question 51

Whose villages were similar to the communities built by the Mound Builders?

Answer 51

Creek

Question 52

T or F: Members of the Seminole Nation are descendants of the Mound Builders.

Answer 52

True

Question 53

Where were many of the Cherokee and Seminoles forced to move?

Answer 53

Oklahoma

Question 54

In the late 1700s and 1800s who were the only Native American people who kept written records?

Answer 54

Cherokee

Question 55

What Cherokee man created the Cherokee written language?

Answer 55

Sequoyah

Question 56

T or F: Just like the Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Romans the Cherokee told many legends that explained the world.

Answer 56

true