Vocabulary
A person who moves from place to place rather than living in one fixed location.
Nomad
People who survive by hunting animals and finding edible plants rather than farming.
Hunter-Gatherers
Ice Age
A long period of time when global temperatures were much colder and ice covered large parts of the Earth.
The name given to the first people who migrated to and settled in the Americas. What is the term for a person who moves from place to place rather than living in one fixed location?
Paleo-Indians
A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen.
Tundra
Glaciers Huge,
slow-moving sheets of ice that formed during the cold periods of Earths history.
A long period of time when global temperatures were much colder and ice covered large parts of the Earth.
Ice Age
The study of human history through the excavation of sites and the
analysis of artifacts.
Land Bridge A strip of land that connects two continents, often exposed when sea
levels drop.
Archaeology
Migration
The movement of people or animals from one region or country to
another.
Huge, slow-moving sheets of ice that formed during the cold periods of
Glaciers
A strip of land that connects two continents, often exposed when sea levels drop.
Land Bridge
Hunter-Gatherers
People who survive by hunting animals and finding edible plants rather
than farming.
The movement of people or animals from one region or country to another.
Migration
Nomad
A person who moves from place to place rather than living in one fixed location
Tundra
A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen.