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