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NM History--Vocabulary
Test Description: Study the vocabulary terms for our final exam
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What does the term 'altitude' mean?
A
The aritificial watering of crops.
B
The height of land above sea level.
C
The average maximum temperature.
D
The amount of rainfall in a year.
2) What does the word 'nomadic' mean?
A
A religion that recognizes many gods.
B
A lifestyle in which someone stays in one place, with a permanent home.
C
A lifestyle in which someone is constantly on the move, with no permanent home.
D
A building material made of clay, water, and sand.
3) What is a 'kachina'?
A
A spirit being of the traditional Pueblo religion.
B
A traditional Navajo dwelling.
C
A Spanish outpost, centered around a church, where Native Americans worked and worshipped.
D
A room (usually round) that is used for religious ceremonies.
4) What does 'polytheistic' mean?
A
Making sacrifices to a god.
B
Practicing no religion.
C
Woshipping many gods.
D
Worshipping one god.
5) Describe a Spanish mission.
A
It was a small adobe house where one Spanish family would live.
B
It was a fort built by the Spanish for only military purposes.
C
It was only a church, with no other buildings or fields around it.
D
It was an outpost, centered around a church, where Native Americans worked and learned to worship.
6) What is a 'wickiup'?
A
A traditional Apache dwelling.
B
A traditional Pueblo dwelling.
C
A traditional Navajo dwelling.
D
None of the above.
7) What is a 'retablo'?
A
A religious painting (2D) from the Spanish Colonial period.
B
Another word for an adobe house.
C
Another word for a Catholic church.
D
A religious statue (3D) from the Spanish Colonial period.
8) What does 'Manifest Destiny' mean?
A
The desire of Spanish explorers to go to the New World for God, Gold, and Glory
B
A belief during the 1800s that the U.S. had a right and a duty to spread across the continent.
C
The belief of many Americans that they should settle no further west than the Mississippi River.
D
The belief of Native Americans that they were destined to break free from U.S. rule.
9) Which of the following means 'the artificial (manmade) watering of crops'?
A
Irrigation
B
Elevation
C
Climate
D
Precipitation
10) What do historians call the area of the U.S. that suffered from severe drought and erosion in the 1930s?
A
The Dusty Plains
B
The Dust Bowl
C
The Great Desert
D
The Scorched States
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