Pre-Columbian Native Americans Test

Last Name

First Name

What period do you take social studies?

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 4th

Which of these statements is a theory about how the first people arrived in the Americas?

• By riding mammoths and mastodons
• They flew over on primative planes
• Walking across land bridges made of ice
• They swam over small distances

Why did the first peoples come to the Americas?

• Hunting small game
• They wanted Glory and Gold
• Looking for the fountain of youth
• Hunting large game

What is a theory on how the first peoples got to the Americas?

• Using simple boats
• Using long ropes to swing across valleys
• Humans always existed in the Americas
• Humans built bridges to cross into the Americas

The first humans in the Americas can best be described as:

• farmers
• hunter-gatherers
• scientists
• soldiers

People who have no permanent home and travel place to place looking for what they need to survive are

• Settler
• Colonizer
• Nomad
• farmer

Which statement is considered an accurate theory about the first humans in the Americas?

• The first humans came from Europe.
• Humans crossed Beringia into the Americas.
• People migrated to the Americas through a system of cave tunnels.
• Humans rode into the Americas on horseback.

In which period were Native Americans predominantly nomadic?

• Paleo
• Archaic
• Woodland
• Mississippian