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5th Chap 2 L1 Vocab
Chapter 2 Lesson 1 The First Americans & Skills 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| glacier | A huge, slow-moving mass of ice covering land. |
| migration | The movement of people. |
| theory | A possible explanation. |
| archaeologist | A scientist who studies the culture of people who lived in the past. |
| artifact | An object made by early people. |
| descendant | A person's child, grandchild, or later relative. |
| origin story | A story or set of stories by Native American people that tells about their beginnings and how the world came to be. |
| ancestor | An early family member. |
| time line | A diagram that shows events that took place during a certain period of time. |
| decade | A period of 10 years. |
| century | A period of 100 years. |
| millennium | A period of 1,000 years. |