People
The science that linked Native Americans to people of Siberia.
DNA - genetics
2 Continents on either side of the Bering Strait
Asia and North America
Period of time when the Bering Strait lowered and became land
Glacial
Largest rodent of the arctic.
Giant beaver
The Land Bridge was really an Ice bridge - misnamed.
False - it was land - Not ice.
The way of life of the first people to come to the Americas.
Nomads
Northeast Russia
Siberia
Period of time when the Bering Strait rose as water again.
Interglacial
Birds eaten in the Yukon but they aren't on any menus today.
Swans
Animals traveled both directions over the land bridge - humans only went one way in significant numbers - east.
True - while a few might have returned to Asia - the first people to cross the exposed land were the first people in the Americas.
Moose, Elk, Humans, Mammoths - but they were the only ones to migrate on 2 legs.
Humans
Term for the area of the "land bridge"
Beringia
The pace of climate change.
Slow
To sleep through the winter.
Hibernate
The first people to come to North America continued to travel all the way to South America
False - future generations of the first people will eventually populate both Americas - but it takes thousands of years.
Lacking wood - people often burned _______ to stay warm.
bones
With the water gone, Beringia must have been a huge mountain - valley or sea?
Valley
This natural phenomenon happened in the exposed land over thousands of years and attracted animals there.
Plants - bushes grew
Ice age carnivore (not bears) found today as close as Michigan
Grey Wolves
It is impossible that the first Americans came any other way than by Beringia.
False -- The Beringia theory might be the strongest - but there are legitimate competing theories.
The first Americans did NOT do this to get food.
farm/grow crops
Term for cold, dry, plains
Steppe
Term for a region's weather patterns, usually tracked for at least 30 years.
Climate
They went from N. America to Asia but not entirely. Ursa
Bears
The ways in which Native Americans lived were primarily influenced by their climate and local resources.
True - Climate determined what the wore and how they housed themselves. Resources determined what they used to clothe and house themselves - in addition to what they ate, etc.