VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
1ST AMERICANS
ADAPTING
NATIVE AMERICANS
100
A group whose members share the same goal.
What is a league?
100
A system by which a group makes, shares, and uses goods?
What is an economy?
100
The Aztecs were
What are skilled farmers
100
Why did Native Americans spread throughout North America?
What is they followed animals herds across the continent?
100
True or False. Native Americans were NOT very religious.
What is false?
200
A system for bringing water to dry fields.
What is irrigation?
200
To change in order to survive the conditions.
What is to adapt?
200
How did the first Americans come to North America?
What is by walking across a land bridge between Asia and North America?
200
Name something important in Native American religion.
What is Native Americans believed that the earth and animals had spirits.
200
Native American children were thought to be
What is connected to the spirit world or highly valued?
300
The planting and raising of crops.
What is agriculture?
300
A way of life including art, rules, beliefs, and history.
What is culture?
300
What was the Mayan civilization know for?
What is they studied the sun, moon, and stars to create a calendar?
300
How did the Native Americans change their environment to improve their lives?
What is they burned shrubs so that the grass would go?
300
Name a role of women in Native American societies.
What is gather and fix food, take care of the home and children, and make clothes.
400
A decision-making body.
What is a council?
400
A person who moves often in search of food.
What is a nomad?
400
Why did the first Americans travel from the North to the rest of the continent?
What is they were searching for food. They followed the herds of animals throughout North America.
400
Name a way in which the environment makes us adapt.
What is the food we eat, clothing we wear, things we do for fun, etc.
400
Which Native American nation in the Northern woodlands formed a league?
What is the Iroquois?
500
To travel or move.
What is migrate?
500
A set of beliefs and way of life that are special to a certain group.
What is a culture?
500
True or False: The Powhatan lived in the Southeast?
What is True?
500
The pacific northwest cultures lived mainly off of
What is the sea or fishing?
500
Who made up the Native American councils?
What is the society's leaders?
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