VOCABULARY
In some tribes members would meet in a ______ and share stories or reenact them during spiritual ceremonies.
Kiva
This environment gets only enough rain to support different types of grasses since most trees and bushes need more water to survive. What environment is it?
Grasslands
What materials (dead animals) did the Inuits use to build their tents?
They stretched the skis of caribou or seals over driftwood.
What vocabulary word am I?
rgmtioani
Migration
Why did Native Americans share stories?
They told stories to entertain each other.
They told stories to teach about their way of life.
They told stories to record their own experiences.
One kind of story Native Americans passed down through the years was the _________________.
Origin Story
This environment gets very little rain. People often living there dig wells and ditches to get enough water for drinking and for raising crops.
Desert
What did the Inuits use to protect their eyes?
Snow Goggles
What vocabulary word am I?
nrmeotvinen
Environment
People who live in desert areas must often
dig wells and ditches to get enough water.
What is the movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new place in another country or area.
This environment is near the North Pole. Huge sheets of ice cover the land for most of the year.
Artic Ice Fields
The Inuits did not waste any part of the animals that they caught. Name 3 ways they used the parts of animals.
They ate the meat. They burned animal fat for fuel. They sewed animal skins together to make clothing, blankets, and tents. They used bones to make dogsleds. They used bones for tools, knives, harpoons, or long spears.
What vocabulary word am I?
gornii torys
Origin Story
To build shelters, the Inuit used the materials they
found around them.
What are soil, water, trees, and minerals such as copper called?
Natural Resorces
This environment is in the rainy and snowy regions of North America. While forests of pine, fir, and spruce often grow below the highest points of this area.
Mountains
The Inuits had to adjust to harsh environments. Name four animals did they hunted?
They hunted whales, walruses, seals, caribou, polar bears, Arctic foxes, squirrels, salmon, and birds.
What vocabulary word am I?
dpaitaonta
Adaptation
Which of the following is an example of a natural resource?
cars
houses
water
Water
What is the vocabulary word that has synonyms like "adjustment," "modification," or "change"?
Adaptation
This environment is the continent that we live in?
North America
Where did the Inuit, also known as Eskimos, build their culture?
The Inuit tribe built their culture in Alaska, Northern Canada, and Greenland.
What vocabulary word am I?
rlecasurta nounesr
Natural Resources
Most Native Americans tell origin stories, or tales, that explain
where their ancestors came from.