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42 Cards in this Set
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How did they migrate from Asia to America? |
On foot and used animal to cross the landbridge |
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Early Americans found food in the following ways |
A) they hunted mammoths B) they depended on animal for food C) grew their food |
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What effect did agriculture have on way of life for early people? |
They were able to stay in one place. |
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Why did early people need to find food sources? |
Ice age animals became extinct |
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What types of food did early people find for food sorce? |
They found berries, wheat, and wild grains |
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How were the lives of the mound builders and the Anasazi the same? |
Both struggled in finding food |
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How were Anasazis and mound builders different? |
Anasazis lived in cliffs and mound builders lived in mounds and mined |
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Name 3 groups of Mound Builders |
Hopeland Adena Mississippians |
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How do you know Mound Builders are traders? |
The artifacts that were found: knives, arrowheads, mica, and jewelry |
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Where did mound builders/Mississippians live? |
East side of Mississippi River communities |
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What did mound builders/Mississippians eat? |
Corn meat berries |
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What type of homes did mound builders/Mississippians live in ? |
Mounds - 100 ft. 10 story buildings |
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Other information of the mound builders/Mississippians. |
Had burial grounds animal spirits chiefs |
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Where did the Anasazi people live? |
The four corners just in southwest of USA |
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What foods did the Anasazi people eat? |
Crops corn squash beans pumpkins |
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Describe the homes the Anasazi people lived in. |
They carved their houses into sides of a cliff |
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What does the word "Anasazi" mean? |
A Navajo Indian name that means " the old ones" |
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Where did the Inuit people live? |
Canada Alaska Greenland Arctic Ocean |
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What did the Inuit people eat? |
Whales walruses seals |
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Describe the homes that Inuit people lived in. |
Igloos from packed snow. |
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What did the Inuit people make so well? |
Beautiful pottery |
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What do we call a long period of extreme cold? |
Ice Age |
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What is a thick sheet of moving ice? |
Glacier |
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To move from one place to another place because of the weather or food. |
To migrate |
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A _________________ is a possible explanation for something. |
Theory |
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An object that someone made in the past is called a(n)______________. |
Artifact |
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A person who studies artifacts to learn how people lived long ago. |
Archeologist |
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Why did people migrate to America? Name 3 |
To follow the animals for better climate for a better life |
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Why did people make temporary homes? |
They had to move around for food to hunt animals as they moved around. |
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What caused the glaciers to melt at end of Ice Age? |
Earth's climate became warmer |
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Why did early peoples need to find new food sources? |
Ice Age animals died out
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When Ice Age animals died out, what types of food did early people eat? |
Wild grains, nuts, berries, small plants, smaller animals, and fishfish |
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How do you think the early people discovered how to grow food? |
Experimented with seeds by accident studied plants |
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What is an activity that is done for a special event or purpose (wedding, birth, death)? |
A ceremony |
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It's a high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it. It means, "table" in Spanish. |
Mesa |
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What is called a long period of no rain? |
A drought |
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Which four states meet at the place called "the four corners"? |
Utah Arizona New Mexico Colorado |
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Why did the Mississippians choose to settle east of Mississippi River? |
Rich soils river and lakes forest |
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Why did mound builders build mounds? |
They held their ceremonies there for burials to honor animal spirits |
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How did the Anasazi farm in the desert? |
They dug ditches to carry water from streams to their farms...called irrigation |
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What was reason to build houses in cliffs? |
Protection from enemies shelter from weather |
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Why did the Inuit build kayaks? |
Transportation fishing hunting |
