Mongollon
What region in Arizona did they live in?
The Mountain Region
What region in Arizona did they live in?
The Desert Region
What region in Arizona did the Anasazi live in?
The Plateau Region.
What are religious or spiritual gatherings called?
ceremonies
What did Arizona’s first people use to enter North America?
The Bering Land Bridge
Where is one place the Mongollon build their dwellings to protect them from enemies?
Cliffs
The largest building in the Hohokum village, which means “big house.”
Casa Grande
Why did the Sinagua dig ditches and built dams?
To irrigate their crops
Buildings, stones, or statues created to remember a person or event is a...?
monument
When there is a long period without rain, it is called a...?
drought
There were no refrigerators in Mogollon Pithouses. Therefore, the dug holes inside their homes to make storage pits. Name one thing they stored in the Storage Pits,
Woven baskets, grain, seeds, even their dead.
The Hohokam built their pithouses partially below ground to protect them from what?
The heat/hot desert sun.
The Sinagua built dams on what river to irrigate their crops?
The Verde River
An area of high land with a flat top or two or more steep peaks is called a...?
mesa
Scientists who study past human life by looking at prehistoric fossils are...?
Archeologists
What was the underground room for special ceremonies called that was built in their Pithouses?
Kiva
How did the Hohokam water their crops in the desert?
They built a system of canals.
What was the volcano called that the Sinagua had to run away from to survive after it erupted?
Sunset Crater Volcano
What is the verb used to explain what an active volcano does when it explode with lava, ashes and gases?
erupt
What was the Bering Land Bridge made of?
Ice
What happened to the Mongollon People?
They disappeared. Some think disease, drought, or enemy tribes may have forced them to leave.
What does “Hohokum” means?
Those who have gone
The Anasazi people are also know by what name?
Ancestral Puebloans
What are objects and tools used by early humans for eating, cooking, and hunting called?
artifacts
What helps us learn about the age of an object?
Carbon Dating