Geography
Early Alabama
Early Alabama
Jumble
Vocabulary
100
The body of water located south of Alabama is _________.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
100

Prehistoric people crossed a land bridge between North America and _______

What is Asia?

100
What do you call scientists that study how the Earth was formed?
What is geologists?
100
Name the river that forms the border between Alabama and Georgia.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
100
the movement of people or animals from one place to another
What is migration?
200
Alabama is located in what part of the USA?
What is southeastern?
200
The prehistoric people were following what?
What is the animals they hunted?
200
Scientists that study tools and other items left behind by past generations.
What is a archaeologist?
200
the wearing away of land by wind, water, or weather over long periods of time
What is erosion?
200
The period of time before history was written down.
What is prehistoric?
300
Alabama is located in which hemisphere?
What is Northwestern
300

People first came to Alabama about how many years ago.

What is 12,000 years ago?

300

By studying _________ found in Alabama, we know that there were once many kinds of plants and animals here that no longer exist

What is fossils?

300
Garbage piles
What is middens?
300
the people who live in a particular place
What are inhabitants?
400
Name the 5 geographic provinces/areas of Alabama.
What is Cumberland Plateau, Coastal Plain, Highland Rim, Ridge and Valley and Piedmont?
400

Which Indians followed herds of animals to Alabama looking for food.

What is Paleo Indians?

400
Which Indians made bowls and other items from stone?
What is Archaic Indians?
400
remains of living things from a former geologic age
What are fossils?
400
A throwing stick used by Archaic Indians.
What is an atlatl?
500
Name the four states that border Alabama
What is Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida?
500
What do archaeologists looks at to learn about the past?
What is weapons, tools, and buildings?
500
Which Indians were first to use the bow and arrow?
What is Woodlands?
500
When were mounds built in Alabama? What were they used for?
What is the mounds were built about 2000 years ago during the Mississippian Period. They were built for homes of chiefs, and priests, ceremonies and burial sites.
500
A fence of stakes set firmly in the ground to enclose or protect a place.
What is palisades?
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