IMPORTANCE OR TREES
NORTHWEST COASTAL PEOPLE
CIVILIZATIONS
PEOPLE OF THE ARCTIC
HOUSING RESOURCES
100
Reasons why trees were more important to the people of the Northwest Coastal and Eastern Woodland Indians than to the Plains Indians:
There were no large forests on the plains.
100
What other resources did the Northwest Coastal people that were imporotant to them?
whales provided them with food and other materials
100
What are features that are common to most civilizations?
1. Ways of life; culture
100
How did the people of the Arctic learn to adapt their shelters to the resources that were available
Because there were no trees, they used blocks of snow or ice in winter to build igloos.
100
Natural resource used to make tepees
animal skins stretched over wooden poles, so animals and wood
200
Reason 2:
They used trees for food.
200
2.
Salmon was an important staple that could be dried for storage or trade.
200
2.
Religion
200
2.
Summer homes were made from sod.
200
Natural resource used to make longhouses
trees: trunk to make poles; leaves and branches for roof and walls
300
Reason 3:
They used these trees to make tools.
300
3.
300
3.
language and the arts
300
3.
Also in summertime, tents were used that were made from sealskin.
300
Natural resource used to build Pueblo homes
adobe bricks (mud, clay, sticks)
400
Reason 4:
They used the trees to make canoes.
400
BONUS...
400 free points!!!!!!
400
4.
Education and government
400
Name for the people of the Arctic.
Inuit or Eskimo
400
Spanish for village
pueblo
500
Reason 5:
They used trees to make their homes...their longhouses.
500
BONUS!!!
500 free points!!!!
500
Name some of the unique features of the earliest civilizations we have read about and discussed.
Things unique and interesting about the Mayas, the Iriquois, the Inuits, the Mound Builders, the Eastern Woodland people, the Plains, the Pueblo, the Northwestern Coastal, etc.
500
Name of a ceremonial dinner where members of the tribe give gifts in honor of someone.
Potlatch
500
BONUS!!!
500 free points
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