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THE BERING LAND BRIDGE AND MIGRATION
VOCABULARY – COPY & DRAW A PICTURE• Bering Strait: water that separates Alaska from Siberia
connecting the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea• Land Bridge: a piece of land that connected continents • Nomad: person who migrates or moves from place to
place following food sources• Irrigation: manmade water sources for harvesting
crops• Ice Age: time when much of the earth was covered with
glaciers• Surplus: having more items than necessary to live
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
• How do maps provide information about people, places, and physical and cultural environments?
• How does geography affect how and where people live?
THEORIES ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN HUMAN SETTLEMENT IN THE AMERICAS
• Anthropologists theorize that Asians migrated across a land bridge between Asia and the Americas
• Animation of land bridge melting
• Native Americans, like the Inuit, believe in indigenous development with migration patterns in both directions
• 35,000-40,000 years ago• Enriched article
WHY CROSS THE BERING LAND BRIDGE?FOOD!
• Nomads followed animals like mammoths, mastodons, giant bison and antelope for food.
• The Bering Strait had mild weather, fresh water sources and food from the sea and plants.
• Followed an ice free path down North America between two glaciers
Disappearance of the Land Bridgevideo
GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS AFFECTED THE SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE EARLIEST AMERICANS
• Ice age made the waters recede and land appear in the Bering Strait
• Nomads spread east and south adapting to forests, plains and mountains while hunting and gathering
• Began to farm and irrigate plants• Surpluses led to other skills like pottery and
basket weaving• Eventually some areas became civilizations with
religion and government
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
• How do maps provide information about people, places, and physical and cultural environments?
• How does geography affect how and where people live?