Social studies quiz
  • 1. What is Dry Farming?
A) A way of killing crops in places where there is little water
B) A way of growing crops in places where there is lots of water
C) A way of growing crops in places where there is rivers
D) A way of growing crops in places where there is little water
  • 2. What makes adobe clay a good material for desert homes?
A) Adobe isn't a good material for building houses
B) Adobe protects from extreme desert weather, including heat, cold, floods and blizzards
C) Adobe clay is a good material for desert homes because it attracts water
  • 3. Who used the dry farming techniques?
A) Hopi
B) Navajo
C) Dine
  • 4. What did the Navajo learn from the Hopi?
A) hunting, cooking, jewelry making
B) Farming, weaving, jewelry-making
C) Cooking, weaving, jewelry-making
  • 5. What is the four corners?
A) Where Utah, Michigan, Colorado, and Arizona meet
B) Where Utah, Colorado, Georgia and Arizona meet
C) Where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet
  • 6. What is a pueblo?
A) Apartment-style homes
B) Tent-style homes
C) Village style homes
  • 7. What are hogans?
A) Apartment style house
B) Tent-style homes made of cloth
C) dome shaped dwellings made with log or stick frames that are covered with mud or sod.
  • 8. What is a mountain or hill with a flat top and steep sides?
A) Hogan
B) Pueblo
C) mesa
  • 9. Round structures in the middle of villages used for religious ceremonies
A) adobe
B) kiva
C) Kachina
  • 10. What is a spirits who visit Hopi villages for half of the year
A) Kiva
B) Kachinas
C) adobe
  • 11. How did horses change the Navajo life?
A) Travel shorter, slower, made them easy targets for enemies
B) There was no change
C) Travel farther, faster, gave them an advantage during raids
  • 12. Why did the Navajo leave northern New Mexico?
A) moved to avoid conflicts
B) They did not move
C) To find new enemies to fight
  • 13. Where did the Navajo move to avoid conflicts from the Spanish and other tribes?
A) Canyon de Chelly
B) Canyon de Franco
C) Canyon de Arizona
  • 14. Who introduced sheep, goats, cattle and horses into the southwest region?
A) Hopi
B) Spanish
C) Navajo
  • 15. How did farming bring Hopi families and communities together?
A) nothing. The plants grew on their own
B) Everyone sent the work elsewhere so that the work could be done
C) Everyone had to work hard together to farm the difficult land
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