Chapter 7 Student Quiz

Expanding Geographic Horizons
. How were humans able to reach new continents and remote islands during the height of the last ice age?

. The controversial idea that ancient people from present-day Europe colonized North America at the end of Pleistocene is refuted by:

. When and how were the Polynesian islands settled by humans?

. Based on the available evidence, which of the following was the last or most recent to be populated by humans?

. The _____________ complex is represented by a pottery style of people who settled ______________.

. Sites on the Channel Islands, off the coast of southern California, date from around ________ years ago; these sites provide evidence for ____________.

. When people first reached the western Arctic around 25,000 years ago, their route into North America was blocked by glacial ice; this is known as the:

. The islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali, and Borneo formed ___________ during the Pleistocene.

. "Greater Australia" or ___________ refers to the landmass that connected Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania during the Pleistocene.

. The lithic technology known as the ___________ Complex is found in the Arctic; it dates from around ___________ years ago and consists of wedge-shaped cores, micro-blades, bifacial knives, and burins.

. The Bering Strait was an exposed land mass, on and off, between _______________ years ago.

. Which of the following was a maritime Paleo-Eskimo culture that flourished by hunting marine mammals, especially seals, which they speared through holes in the ice?

. The ___________ Complex may be the oldest lithic technology in Alaska; it dates from around ____________ years ago and includes bifacially flaked, unfluted spear points.

. The ___________ culture is widespread and was once thought to be the oldest in North America; it dates from around ____________ years ago and includes distinctive spearpoints with a channel, or flute, on both sides.

. The ______________ ice sheet was centered in the Rocky Mountains during the Pleistocene.

. The ______________ Corridor began opening after around 15,000 years ago, but may not have been hospitable for several thousand years.

. During the ___________, which dates between _________ years ago, worldwide sea level was much lower than present day. This resulted in the exposure of a landmass east of Siberia, called __________.

. The ____________ is an undersea chasm between New Guinea-Australia and Java-Borneo.

. Paleogenetic and paleoecological evidence suggest people reached Australia by around ____________ years ago; there is much more evidence for humans in Australia after around _________ years ago.

. Recent studies indicate the extinction of all species of megafauna in North America can be best explained as having been caused by:

. The Gault site in south-central Texas has produced evidence from 13,000 years ago that Paleoindians chose this location based on the:

. Archaeologists discovered stone artifacts and the butchered bones of an extinct herbivore at Warratyi rock shelter; evidence that people were living in _________ by _________ years ago.

. Based on the available evidence, which of the following was the first or earliest to be populated by humans?

. Which of the following culture derived its name from a lanceolate-shaped stone projectile point with fluted sides?

. Which culture is associated with hide boats and spread across the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland beginning about 700 years ago?

. Which of the following refers to a lithic technology in the Arctic consisting of wedge-shaped cores, microblades, bifacial knives, and burins, dating to about 10,000 years ago?

. Archaeological and genetic evidence indicates the modern Inuit are the descendants of which people?

. The controversial idea that people from present-day Europe colonized North America at the end of Pleistocene is based on:

. Genetic evidence from the oldest known human skeletons in the Americas, which date from as early as __________ years ago, indicate close connections between _________.

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