The Earliest Americans Quiz Study Guide

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Across
  1. 4. Where did the earliest Americans come from?
  2. 5. It took __________ of years for the earliest Americans to travel south to the southern tip of South America.
  3. 7. New ways of hunting and the invention of farming caused the earliest Americans to add new words to their __________.
  4. 10. The _____________ refers to North America, Central America, and South America.
  5. 11. When the earliest Americans began to farm, people began to live longer and have more __________.
  6. 13. They hunted _________ ___________, which looked like large hairy elephants.
  7. 14. The term "domestication" means to make a ______.
  8. 18. What do we call the process of changing from a culture that hunts and gathers its food to a culture that plants and harvests its food?
  9. 21. What is the name of the southern tip of South America?
  10. 22. The earliest Americans crossed into _______ America by coming into Alaska and Canada.
  11. 23. When the animals they were hunting became extinct, the earliest Americans began to hunt _______ game like deer and rabbits.
Down
  1. 1. During the _____ _____ it was very cold all over the earth.
  2. 2. In order to have an ordered society with rules to keep people safe, the earliest Americans formed _____________.
  3. 3. Historians believe that, if they did not come by boat, the earliest Americans must have ________ to North America.
  4. 6. Historians believe that,if they did not come by walking, the earliest Americans must have come to North America by ______.
  5. 8. They hunted the _______ _______ _______, which had very long, sharp teeth,
  6. 9. They hunted ___________, which can still be hunted today if you have a permit.
  7. 12. The first families that crossed into North America ________ to get their food.
  8. 15. The earliest Americans had to stop hunting the animals they followed into North America, because those animals had become __________.
  9. 16. When the earliest Americans began to farm, they no longer had to ________ for their food.
  10. 17. When the earliest Americans began to farm, they began to build permanent _______.
  11. 19. The earliest Americans came to North America, because they were following the ___________ they were hunting.
  12. 20. They hunted ___________, which were a little smaller and less hairy than Woolly Mammoths.