Chapter 3 Lesson 1: The First Texans

A time when huge sheets of ice and snow cover parts of Earth's land and sea

• agriculture

• quarry

• ice age

• archeologist

A relative, such as a person's children and grandchildren

• culture

• descendant

• hunter-gatherer

• artifact

Scientist who study the culture and artifacts of early people

• hunter-gatherer

• agriculture

• descendant

• archeologist

Farming

• agriculture

• culture

• ice age

• artifact

Way of life

• agriculture

• culture

• quarry

• descendant

Open pits where people mine, or dig up rocks

• quarry

• archeologist

• artifact

• hunter-gatherer

A person who collect plants and hunts wild animals for food

• ice age

• hunter-gatherer

• archeologist

• quarry

An object used and made by people

• culture

• artifact

• descendant

• ice age

Tools made from ___________ flint have been found across the Southwest and the Great Plains. Archeologists say this shows the people traded Texas flint far and wide.

• Alibates

• Panhandle

• mammoth

• Beringia

The first American Indians of present-day Texas were descendants of the earliest people who came to _____________________.

• the Ice Age

• Europe

• South America

• North America