Human Migration Theories Quiz

What is a hypothesis?

• Something not proven

• Something assumed to be true

• A guess based on what we do know

• All of the above

What does migrate mean?

How many hypotheses do historians have about how the first humans arrived in the Americas?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

This theory proposed that people entering the Americas followed the Pacific coastline, hunter-gatherer-fishers traveling in boats or along the shoreline and subsisting primarily on marine resources.

• Land Bridge Theory

• Pacific Coastal Migration Theory

• Salutrean Theory

• Human Migration Theory

This theory proposed that the people of Western Europe may have crossed the North Atlantic Ocean along the edge of pack ice that extended from the Atlantic coast of France to North America.

• Land Bridge Theory

• Pacific Coastal Migration Thoery

• Salutrean Theory

• Human Migration Theory

This theory states that early animals and people traveled from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that was exposed during the Ice Age. Today, these two lands are separated by a stretch of water called the Bering Strait.

• Land Bridge Theory

• Pacific Coastal Migration Theory

• Salutrean Theory

• Human Migration Theory