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End of the Ice Age
Vocabulary
People in the Americas
Land Bridge
100
This happened to the Earth's climate when the Ice Age ended.
What is it became warmer.
100
This is a period of extreme cold.
What is an Ice Age
100
What was the main job of the early people in the Americas?
What is hunting
100
Who crossed the land bridge?
People and Animals
200
This happened to the bigger mammals at the end of the Ice Age.
What is they became extinct (died)
200
These are large sheets of ice.
What is a glacier.
200
how many years ago did people learn to grow food?
What is about 7,000.
200
Why do historians believe early people crossed the land bridge?
To follow their food source.
300
Why did the larger mammals die at the end of the Ice Age?
They were hunted too much or they could not adapt.
300
These people study artifacts made by people who lived a long time ago.
What is an archaeologist.
300
Why did people start forming communities?
They no longer had to move around to hunt.
300
What is the name of the narrow body of water between Asia and North America?
The Bering Strait.
400
What did people begin to do for food when the larger mammals died?
What is farm.
400
This is when people move from one area to another
What is migration (migrate)
400
What direction did people move when the migrated through the Americas?
What is south.
400
What is a possible other way people came to the Americas? (not using the land bridge)
By boat.
500
About when did the Ice Age end?
What is 10,000 years ago.
500
This is a possible explanation who why things happen.
What is a theory.
500
Name three things early Americans used Woolly Mammoths for.
Food, Pelts, Fur, Bones
500
Why is it called the "Land Bridge Theory?"
A theory is a possible explanation and historians don't know for sure how or why people came to the Americas.