Vocabulary Basics
A way of life shared by a group of people, including beliefs and customs.
What is culture?
The study of past people and cultures through their physical remains.
What is archaeology?
People who move from place to place often follow herds or look for this.
What is food?
Something that happens as a result of an action is called this.
What is an effect?
Copying someone’s work and claiming it as your own.
What is plagiarizing?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
This method helps scientists determine the age of an artifact using decay.
What is carbon dating?
This technique allows farmers to water their crops in dry areas.
What is irrigation?
Something that makes an event happen.
What is a cause?
Symbols or pictures used by ancient peoples to write.
What are hieroglyphics?
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home.
What is a nomad?
A scientist may do this to guess an object’s age when they can't know exactly.
What is estimate?
Maize was important because it allowed Native groups to settle and do this.
What is farm or build civilizations?
A logical guess based on clues and knowledge.
What is an inference?
Something very detailed or carefully made.
What is highly detailed? (Accept What is intricate? or What is complex?)
A grain first farmed by early Americans, also called corn.
What is maize?
A general term for man-made objects like tools, weapons, or pottery.
What are artifacts?
A system of rules and organization, often used to describe early cities.
What is a civilization?
This type of right cannot be taken away, according to the Declaration.
What is an unalienable right?
Having many parts, or being difficult to understand.
What is complex?
Objects made by humans, often used by archaeologists to learn about the past.
What are artifacts?
The name of the land bridge early people crossed from Asia to North America.
What is Beringia?
Early people were divided into family-based groups called this.
What are clans?
Historians use this to draw conclusions when they don’t have full evidence.
What is inference?
When you use information in your own words and give credit, you avoid this.
What is plagiarizing?