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Earl Americas Vocab
BIS Miller SS Early Americas Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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. |