Home On The Range
Located across from the high school is Sonic.
Relative Location
Change in behavior in response to new or modified surroundings.
What is Adaptation?
Part of an oral tradition of "The Earliest People" the name of the spirit.
What is "The Great Spirit"?
Two tribes building Beehive shaped grass lodges, and round homes covered with earth.
Who are the Wichita and Pawnee?
Used by Native Americans to prolong the preservation of food.
What is a Pottery Vessel?
A TMS physical education teacher graduated from this University.
What is Kansas University?
A shallow water table located under the great plains surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
The act of moving from one land or country to settle in another place.
What is Migration?
Used by the nomadic tribes, has one room round and has a smoke hole, made from buffalo hides.
What is a Tipi?
The largest land mammal in North America, weighing about as much as a small car.
What is a buffalo?
Replaced an Atlatl for Native Americans allowing for further accuracy.
What is a Bow & Arrows?
A TMS faculty member who has been to Scotland, Germany, and Italy.
Who is Mrs. Mielke?
The cause of the Grasshopper invasion of 1870's
What is a drought?
Having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
What is Nomadic?
Used by Northern sedentary tribes, has one room, round with a smoke hole, made from twigs, grass, and dirt.
What are Earth Lodges?
The Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Comanche are all examples of what?
What are Horses?
A TMS faculty member having a son named Easton.
Who is Coach Falhgren?
Name the type of location at 39.1097° N, 95.0877° W
What is Tonganoxie? (Absolute Location)
Is the act of living in one place for a long time.
What is Sedentary?
Used by Southern sedentary tribes, has 1 room, round with a smoke hole, made with tall grasses.
What is a Grasslodge?
Two tribes one living in permanent longhouses covered with bark, and one living in long wood-framed lodges.
Sedentary tribes adopted this form of supplementation allowing for stable growth of the food supply.
What is a Garden?
A TMS faculty member who played softball at Emporia State University.
Who is Mrs. Padfield?
What is the name or nickname of one of the most photographed fossils in the world.
"Xiphactinus" or "Fish within a fish"
What is relative dating?
Used by Southern sedentary tribes, rectangle-shaped, has one room, made from tree bark.
Labeled the "Three Sisters" by Native American tribes what crops were commonly planted across different regions of North America?
What are Corns, Beans, and Squash?
Native Americans used this type of cooking by utilizing a buffalo stomach and putting it over a fire. Using indirect heat this would cook the food.
What are Boiling Stones?
TMS faculty member who has the most shoe game out of anyone in the building.
Who is Mrs.Scates?