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To thrive in your environment and your community.
What is flourish?
The U.S. state where the ancient footprints were found.
What is New Mexico?
The theory that says first peoples walked to North America.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
Scientists who study physical remains to answer questions about the past.
What are archaeologists?
This part of a map explains what the colors, symbols, and lines mean.
What is the key (or legend)?
To move from one location to another.
What is migrate?
The footprints turned into this material, which is why they lasted so long.
What is rock?
The theory that says first peoples arrived by water.
What is the Coastal Migration Theory?
When studying first peoples, scientists look for evidence that turned into rock or was made from it. Footprints and fossils are turned into rock; spear points are made of this.
What is rock (stone)?
The continent where the oldest evidence of humans is found.
What is Africa?
An explanation that is based on evidence.
What is a theory?
The geological period when these footprints were made.
What is the last ice age?
The name of the land bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska.
What is Beringia?
The reason it is so hard to find evidence of prehistoric humans.
What is that most evidence breaks down over time? (or, no written records exist)
On a map showing migration, these symbols are used to show the direction people moved.
What are arrows?
This word means "before history," referring to the time before written records.
What is prehistoric?
These two things scientists found at White Sands are evidence that first peoples lived alongside giant ice age animals.
What are footprints (human) and megafauna?
According to the Coastal Migration Theory, first peoples traveled along the coast of these two continents to reach the Americas.
What are Asia and North America?
The three steps of the Investigating Sources routine used in Lesson 4.
What are Observe, Read, and Connect?
The seven large landmasses shown on a world map.
What are the continents?
These four words share the same Latin root as "migrate": migrant, migration, immigrate, and this one, meaning a person who moves into a new country.
What is immigrant?
Scientists can tell the footprints are very old because they were found in different layers of this.
What is rock?
The reason Beringia is no longer visible today.
What is it is underwater? (sea levels rose after the ice age)
What separates a scientific theory from a hunch.
What is a body of evidence?
The four main directions shown on a compass rose.
What are north, south, east, and west?