Chapter 2 Lesson 1

Question 1

Glacier

Answer 1

S

Frozen masses of water

Question 2

Ancestors

Answer 2

Early family members

Question 3

Surplus

Answer 3

Extra food

Question 4

Tribe

Answer 4

American indian group with a leader

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

Different ways of living life

Question 6

Artifact

Answer 6

An object of the past made by people. Artifacts include clothing baskets pots tools

Question 7

Legends

Answer 7

Stories handed down over time

Question 8

What was the ice age?

Answer 8

A period of freezing cold time

Question 9

Why did water levels on earth drop?

Answer 9

Because of water was trapped in glaciers

slow moving

Question 10

What was the” land bridge”?

Answer 10

A land bride was a dry land that connected Asia with north america

Question 11

What do scientists believe happend over the land bridge?

Answer 11

Early peopled traveled across the land bridge to North America from asia

Question 12

What is a nomadic way of life?

Answer 12

A nomadic way of life was moving from place to place following herds of animals

Question 13

These early people spread out over what continents?

Answer 13

North and South America

Question 14

How many years ago did people reach California?

Answer 14

13000 years ago

Question 15

What was the climate like California 13,000 years ago?

Answer 15

Was cooler and wetter than today

Question 16

What animals lived in California 13,000 years ago?

Answer 16

Mastodons and woolly mammoths

Question 17

How did early Indians hunt?

Answer 17

Spears with stone edges

Question 18

What happened as the climate warmed?

Answer 18

Many plants that huge animals ate cold no longer

Question 19

How did the early Indians adapt to the climate changes?

Answer 19

They had to adapt by killing smaller animals , fish and new hunting tools

Question 20

List common characteristics of a tribe

Answer 20

1 acting
2 dressing 
3 speaking
4 culture 
5 myths 
6

Question 21

How were cultures shaped.

Give examples

Answer 21

They were shaped by environment , regions ,natural resources ,forests , and shrubs or trees

Question 22

Is there a written record of early Indian life?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

How do we learn about early indian life?

Answer 23

We learn by artifacts.

Question 24

Give examples of early Indian artifacts?

Answer 24

An example if an artifact is clothing, baskets, pots, tools, and weapons

Question 25

What can we learn about early Indian life from artifacts ?

Answer 25

How they told stories, songs, and teachings

Question 26

Besides, artifacts how else can we learn about early Indian life?

Answer 26

Legends

Question 27

What did legends(story telling ) tell about?

Answer 27

1 Natural events
2 tribes history
3 ancestors have always lived in america

Question 28

How were legends passed down to the next generation?

Answer 28

The children would repeat the lines until they have it memorized

Question 29

How did early people depend on large animals?

Answer 29

They depended on large animals by killing them for shelter and food

Question 30

How did people adapt to the change in climate and animals dieing out?

Answer 30

They adapted by killing smaller animals and plants

Question 31

How did the environment shape the ways of life of early California Indians?

Answer 31

It shaped by different regions

The north & south

Question 32

How were legends important to California Indians ?

Answer 32

Legends were important to Indian tribes so they could pass the legends down for generations and generations they also told them how to act and behave