Geographic Regions
Vocabulary Words
Prehistoric Indians
Vocabulary Words
Geographic Words
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What river forms a border between Alabama and Georgia?
What is the Chattahoochee River
100
A throwing stick used by Archaic Indians for hunting.
What is a atlatl
100
When did the first people arrive in Alabama?
What is about 12,000 years ago
100
The remains of a living thing
What is a fossil
100
A nearly flat plain between different branches of the mouth of the river.
What is a delta
200
In which two hemispheres are Alabama located?
What is the Northern and Western
200
Garbage dumps where Archaic Indians threw away empty mussell shells
What is middens
200
Who made useful items such as bowls from stone?
What is Archaic Indians
200
Wearing away of rocks and soil by wind and water
What is erosion
200
Long body of water that flows across the land
What is a river
300
What are the four states that border Alabama?
What is Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia
300
Groups of tribes with common goals and beliefs
What are chiefdoms
300
Who came to Alabama following animals that are now extinct?
What is the Paleo Indians
300
Artwork carved into rocks by Paleo Indians
What is petroglyphs
300
Flat land
What is a plain.
400
What are the five geographic provinces?
What is Cumberland Plateau, Highland Rim, Piedmont, Ridge and Valley and Coastal Plain
400
Movements of people or animals from one place to another
What is migration
400
Who were the first to use the bow and arrow?
What is Woodland Indians
400
Scientist who study past cultures.
What is archaeologist
400
Low land between hills and mountains
What is a valley
500
What two rivers together create the Alabama River?
What is the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers
500
Period of time before history was written down
What is prehistoric
500
In what period were mounds built?
What is the Mississippian Period
500
Scientists who study how the earth was formed.
What is geologists
500
A stream or river bed?
What is a channel
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