Geography
This includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is North America?
What is the weather over a long period of time?
Native Americans depended in this to survive.
What are natural resouces?
Native Americans often held this to celebrate a cultural or religious event.
What is a ceremony?
The state capital nearest 38N, 82W.
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What is Charleston, West Virginia?
Scientists think this once linked Asia to North America.
What is the Land Bridge?
Why is the climate near the equator usually warmer?
the sun's light falls on Earth more directly at the equator.
Native Americans often depended on this in order to produce more goods.
What is division of labor?
Native American groups in dry climates generally used very little of this.
What is wood?
The number of years after the Maya became powerful that the Ancient Puebloan civilization ended.
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What is 1,000 years?
This covers most of the central US.
What is plains?
In general, the climate in the western US is ______ than that in the eastern part of of the county.
What is drier?
This is the main reason that early peoples in the Americas began to live in larger more settled villages.
What is the development of agriculture
After water, this was the most important natural resource for the Plains people.
What is buffalo?
The cultural region that the Cherokee lived in, and the cultural region that the Zuni lived in.
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What is the Eastern Woodlands, and what is the Southwest?
The peaks of this landform have been worn down by erosion.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This is how the climate of the Northeast is different from that of much of the Southwest.
What is colder and wetter?
The kind of shelter people of the Northwest Coast built that was similar to the shelters of the Eastern Woodlands people.
What was tepees?
The kind of shelter built from adobe bricks that was common in the Southwest region.
What are pueblos?
Tepees were made of animal skins. What can you tell about the Native Americans who built and lived in tepees?
They had access to enough animals to cover the tepees with the animal skins.
A description of the landform known as the Coastal Plain.
What is flat low land along the Atlantic Ocean?
How did the geography and climate of an area influence how the Native Americans there lived?
It determined the kinds of houses the people built an the foods they ate.
This is one way that the Arctic and Great Plains peoples were alike.
They both depended on hunting to meet most of their needs.
Why did the economy of Native Americans living in the Arctic cause families to band together?
Why were trees more important to people of the Northwest Coast and the Eastern Woodlands than they were to the Plains people?
Trees were a natural resource found in those regions but that was scarce in the plains region.