Quarter 1 Review

Rules Multiple choice questions are worth 1 point Fill in the blank are worth 2 points Yelling out wrong answers will lose your team points Cheating/ talking with other teams will lose your team points Winning team receives extra credit on Thursday’s test

Question 1 Why did the first Americans migrate from Asia to the Americas? A. in search of food B. to locate fertile farmland C. to flee from hostile tribes D. in search of a better climate

Question 2 How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age? A. They sailed across a narrow strait. B. They traveled south from Canada. C. They traveled across a land bridge. D. They sailed to Mexico and then drifted north.

Question 3 Which of these was most important to the survival of the American Indians? A. land and home ownership B. trade to meet their daily needs C. ability to use natural resources D. warm and mild climate conditions

Question 4 Which of these enabled American Indians to settle in permanent villages? A. trading B. hunting C. herding D. farming

Question 5 Which of these was an important resource of the Northwest Coast people? A. Great Lakes B. Pacific Ocean C. Gulf of Mexico D. Mississippi River

Question 6 American Indians of which region lived in a very arid (dry) climate? A. California B. Great Basin C. Plateau D. Southwest

Question 7 How was it possible for the mesa people to grow corn in the desert? A. They used rain barrels. B. They dug irrigation ditches. C. They traded their crops for water. D. They planted drought-tolerant corn.

Question 8 How did the American Indians in the Southeast live? A. They lived in wooden longhouses in the forest. B. They lived in adobe villages on top of flat mesas. C. They lived in underground pit houses beside major rivers. D. They lived in towns clustered around large earthen mounds.

Question 9 A larger flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land around it. Plateau

Question 10 Which of these describes one way American Indians adapted the environment to meet their needs? A. Arctic people raised livestock. B. Southwest people made many things with corn. C. Great Plains people made clothing from animal hides. D. Eastern Woodlands people burned trees to plant corn.

Question 11 This is an imaginary horizontal line that circles the Earth and is parallel to the equator. A. Latitude B. Longitude C. Hemisphere D. Geography

Question 12 A piece of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water and is attached to a larger land area. Peninsula

Question 13 A large area of flat land with few trees. Plain

Question 14 A hill of sand near an ocean or desert that is formed by the wind. Sand Dune

Question 15 This an imaginary vertical line that circles the Earth and is parallel to the Prime Meridian A. Latitude B. Longitude C. Hemisphere D. Geography

Question 16 Land that is shaped by rivers that split into smaller rivers as they flow into the ocean. Delta

Question 17 This geographic feature is a half or portion of the Earth A. Latitude B. Longitude C. Hemisphere D. Geography

Question 18 A larger hole formed by natural processes in the side of cliffs or under the ground. Caves

Question 19 A deep valley with steep rock sides that often has a stream or river flowing through it. Canyon

Question 20 A narrow area of land that connects two larger land areas. Isthmus