Earliest Americans Flashcards
Q: This is the period in Earth’s history when huge sheets of ice covered large parts of Earth’s surface?
A: Ice Age
Q: What is a small strip of land that connects two large land masses?
A: Land Bridge
Q: What was the land bridge that connected Asia and North America?
A: Beringia
Q: Why can’t people walk from Asia to North America today?
A: Beringia is underwater
Q: What were the small groups who fed themselves by hunting and gathering plants called?
A: Hunter-gatherers
Q: What are the prehistoric elephant-like animals called?
A: Mammoths and mastodons
Q: What are the early hunters that had no permanent homes and followed herds of animals called?
A: Nomads
Q: Today, how do scientists believe the earliest Americans arrived in the Americas from Asia?
A: By boat on the Pacific Ocean.
Q: Why couldn’t the first settlers in North America move very far inland?
A: There were huge ice sheets in the way.
Q: At the end of the ice age, what happened when all of the ice began to melt?
A: The oceans rose.
Q: What made it possible for the Nomads in the Americas to stay in place for long periods of time?
A: They learned to farm.
Q: What was the first crop the Native Americans in Mexico learned how to grow?
A: Corn/Maize
