Geography
Vocabulary
Native Americans
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100

This is an imaginary line called a parallel that runs west and east around Earth.

What is a line of LATITUDE?

100

This is a change or adjustment in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment.

What is an ADAPTATION?

100

These are told by many Native American tribes to explain how Earth and its people came to be.  

What are ORIGIN STORIES?

100

MOST early Native Americans settled in places that had rich natural resources.  True or False?

What is TRUE?

100

Climate, phyiscal features, and vegetation all affect where people choose to live.  True or False?

What is TRUE?

200

This is an imaginary line called a meridian that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. 

What is a line of LONGITUDE?

200

This is a way of living of a group of people.

What is CULTURE?

200

Native Americans had to do this, or use what was around them in nature as they migrated in order to survive.  

What is ADAPT?

200

Snow goggles made from animal bones, igloos made out of ice and snow and floats constructed from sealskins were all made by THIS tribe of Native Americans.

Who are the Inuits?

200

Escaping hot weather was one reason that some tribes may have chosen THIS type of lifestyle.  

What is NOMADIC?

300

This word means weather patterns, such as those in temperature, rainfall, and wind, measured over time in an area.

What is CLIMATE?

300

This means moving from place to place often with changes in the seasons, to follow sources of food.

What is NOMADIC?
300

An apartment building made of stone and adobe is known by THIS name.

What is a PUEBLO?

300

This animal was considered SO important that the Western Dakotas of the Great Plains considered it sacred.  

What is the BISON?

300

This type of Native American home was made from small trees bent into a dome shape covered with bark or mats made from plants.

What are WIGWAMS?

400

These are the types of plants in an area or a region.

What is VEGETATION?

400

This is the movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new place in another country or area.

What is MIGRATION?

400

The skins from this animal were used to make floats that attached to harpoons to slow down and catch injured animals when hunting.  

What are SEALS?

400

Ivory from this animal was used by the Inuits to make harpoons.

What are WALRUSES?

400

This animal's blubber was used for fuel, its meat was used to make a dish called muktuk, and its bones were used to build the frames of igloos and tents.

What are WHALES?

500

This is something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, vegetation, and minerals.

What are NATURAL RESOURCES?

500

This is an object, such as a tool or clothing, made by a group of humans.

What is an ARTIFACT?
500

Native Americans in this region built chickees 3 feet of the ground because the swamplands they built on often flooded.

What is the SOUTHEAST?

500

Native Americans in this region created huge homes, totem poles, clothing, and rope out of this natural resource, because it was so plentiful where they lived.

What is WOOD/TREES?

500

Scientists think that the earliest Americans crossed THIS from Asia to North America, following big game animals like buffaloes and mammoths, which they hunted.  

What is the Beringia Land Bridge?

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