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Earl Americas Vocab
BIS Miller SS Early Americas Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ice Age | A long period of extreme cold |
| Migrate | Movement from one place to another |
| Glaciers | Thick Sheets of Ice |
| Land Bridge | The path by which people traveled from Asia to the Americas |
| Agriculture | Framing |
| Artifacts | Objects someone made in the past and left behind |
| Arctic Ocean | The ocean in the upper region of the world |
| Food Surplus | Extra food saved for a time of need in the future |
| Beringia | The land bridge that connected Asia and N. America |
| Irrigation | Watering crops |
| Four Corner States | Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona |
| Tundra | a vast and treeless artic region. |
| Extinct | nonexistent,vanished,dead. |
| Glacier | a very large mass of ice. |
| Drought | lack of rain,adnormaly dry weather. |
| Adapt | change, to make suitable. |
| Civilzation | a peice of land with people/organisms. |
| Surplus | an amount in success. |
| Empire | a group of countries ruled by an emperor. |
| Conquer | defeat,overcome,subdue. |