What is a movement of people/animals
*Usually refers to the movement of people/animals from one country or area of the world to a new home in another country or area
100
What are tales that explain where American Indian ancestors came from?
What is Origin Stories
100
What continent did the first people in North America come from?
What is Asia
100
Name the coldest natural environment that the first Americans settled in.
What is Arctic Ice Fields
100
What is a change or adjustment to a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment?
What is adaptation
200
Define a natural resource.
What is something from nature that is useful to people
200
What is a kiva?
What is a circular area where tribe members meet
200
What is a long period of time when Earth's surface is covered with ice?
What is an Ice Age
200
Name all 4 natural environments that the first Americans settled in.
What is Arctic Ice Fields, Deserts, Grasslands, Mountains
200
Give one example of something the Inuits used the bones of an animal for.
What is dogsleds, support tent frames, or to make tools
300
Name 3 things that are included in a natural environment.
What is water, land, animals, dirt, plants, etc. ANYTHING in nature!
300
Give one reason why American Indians told stories.
What is to entertain each other, to teach about their beliefs, to teach about their ways of life, to teach about where their ancestors came from
300
Which area in Asia did the first Americans travel from?
What is Siberia
300
Name the 2 harshest natural environments that the first Americans settled in.
What is Arctic Ice Field and Desert
300
What is another name for the Eskimos?
What is the Inuit Tribe
400
What are migration routes?
What is the routes the first Americans took to their new homes in North and South America
400
Which state does the Hopi tribe live in?
What is Arizona
400
What led the first Americans from Siberia to North America? What were they in search of?
What is Animals to eat for food
*They hunted “big game”- mammoths, bison, caribou
400
Name 2 natural resources.
What is soil, water, timber, minerals, etc.
400
What did the Inuits use for fuel?
What is animal fat
500
What is the difference between adaptation and migration?
What is Migration means to move somewhere and adaptation means getting used to something when you move there
500
In the Hopis origin story, they said the chief's advisors made a kind of bird to fly around to look for other forms of life. What kind of bird was it?
What is Mockingbird
500
There used to be a land bridge connecting Asia and North America. Which sea now separates them?
What is Bering Sea
500
Explain what the environment was like in a mountain region.
What is an area that gets lots of rain and snow. The tops of mountains have little or no plant life. Forests of pine, fir, and spruce often grow below the highest points of the mountains.