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New Mexico ranks 7th in the United States in the production of ____________, _____________, ____________, ___________, and ____________.
copper, natural gas, uranium, potash, and pertroleum
The loss of soil is called ____________.
What is the least populated province in New Mexico?
Great Plains Province
Because the people who lived here didn't leave any written records, the are called _____________.
prehistoric
____________ such as stone tools and skeletons from large animals tell of the existence of paleo people
artifacts
What is potash used for in agriculture
fertilizer
What specific landform runs through the Colorado Plateau Province and the Basin and Range Province?
Continental Divide
What are the four largest cities in the Great Plains Province?
Clovis, Hobbs, Roswell, and Carlsbad
______________ is the study of past people and cultures through a careful examination of artifacts
Archaeology
The first evidence of paleo people in New Mexico was discovered in ____________ New Mexico.
northeastern
_______________ is used for bomb-making and in nuclear power plants as fuel.
uranium
What are the two largest rivers in New Mexico?
Pecos River and Rio Grande
The largest cities in the Basin and Range Province are ___________ and __________
Albuquerque and Las Cruces
Archaeologists unearth, or excavate, ____________ and study them to learn how people lived in the past.
artifacts
Archaeologists also found __________ that were lodged in the bones
spear points
What is our state's most valuable resource?
water
________________ is the study of the characteristics of human population, such as size, growth, density, distribution and other vital statistics.
Demography
What is the most populated region of the United States?
Northeast
Ancient people who roamed from place to place are known as ____________.
nomads
____________ means ancient
paleo
What two areas of New Mexico are oil and gas mined in?
Northwestern and Southeastern
What region of the United States is New Mexico in?
Southwest
What is the two most popular ways of making a living in the Great Plains Province?
Farming and Ranching
Prehistoric people are divided into two groups of people. They are ______________ and ________________.
Paleo and Archaic
Paleo people traveled in ___________ family groups
small
A boy scout named Ridgley Whiteman found ___________ bones near Clovis.
mammoth
The Clovis Point was _____________ than the Folsom Point
bigger
Archaeologist believe that the Clovis people were here ____________ the Folsom people
before
____________ spear points meant that the Clovis people hunted larger animals that the Folsom people
bigger
_____________ people came after the paleo people
Archaic
Archaic people lived in _____________ places during different seasons
different
The _______________ is a land feature that causes rivers to run in opposite directions of each other. It cuts through the Colorado Plateau Province and the Basin and Range Province
Continental Divide
The Archaic people are the first people that began __________
farming
The Archaic people dug __________ to move water from rivers to irrigate their crops
canals
____________ is the beliefs and customs of a group of people, distinguishes one group of people from another
culture
Because travel was ___________, the Archaic people built homes they could return to year after year.
seasonal
Archaic people called their first form of housing ___________.
pithouses
The Archaic people ___________ their tools
buried
One of the major tools that was developed during the Archaic was the ___________. It was used to improve hunting
atlatl
A(n) ___________ is a stick about 18 inches long with a grip on one end and a bone or antler hook on the other.
atlatl
Stones were likely used to grind ________ into flour.
seed
A _________ was a small stone people held in their hand
mano
The Archaic people rubbed a mano against a larger, flatter stone called a _____________
metate
_______________ is used to measure the distance north and south of the equator
latitude
_______________ is used to measure the distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.
longitude