Vocabulary
First Native Americans
Name that Tribe
Homes
Name that Region
100

Which word means moving from place to place? 

a. migratory

b. teeming

c. generation

What is a- migratory?

100

This method of obtaining food allowed tribes to settle and live in one place and increase their populations.

a. hunting

b. gathering

c. farming

What is c-farming? 

100

This is another name of the chief of a Northeastern tribe.

a. wampum

b. sachem

c. pemmican 

What is b- sachem? 

100

A type of Iroquois home that could hold up to 50 people. 

a. Wigwam

b. Longhouse

c. Adobe Pueblo


What is b- Longhouse. 

100

This region is cold and harsh. It is home to the Inuit people. 

a. Southeast 

b. Arctic/Subarctic

c. Southwest 

What is b- arctic/subarctic? 

200

Crowds singing the national anthem before a game begins best describes which word?

a. migratory

b. ceremonial

d. teeming

What is b-ceremonial?

200

The first Native Americans most likely continue to migrate after arriving on the continent of North America because _______.

a. to avoid Europeans

b. to find more food and land

c. to connect with family members 

What is b- to find more food and land?

200

Name a tribe of the Arctic/Subarctic region.

a. Seminole

b. Inuit

c. Hopi

What is b-Inuit. 

200

This tribe lived in this type of home. 

a. Inuit

b. Ancestral Pueblo

c. Iroquois

What is a- Inuit?

200

This region is hot and dry. It is home to the Zuni, Hopi, and Ancestral Pueblo.

a. Southeast

b. Arctic/Subarctic

c. Southwest

What is c-Southwest?

300

Which word means detailed and complex?

a. ceremonial

b. inhospitable

c. intricate

What is c- intricate?

300

TRUE OR FALSE 

Two routes that early Native Americans probably used to migrate from Asia to North America during the last Ice Age were the frozen land of Beringia and the ice free corridor and the coastlines of Beringia and North America. 

What is true? 

300

Kachina dolls from this tribe represented different spirits. 

a. Ancestral Pueblo

b. Hopi

c. Iroquois 

What is b- Hopi.

300

What tribe lived in this type of home? 

a. Inuit

b. Ancestral Pueblo

c. Iroquois 

What is c- Iroquois. 

300

The very dry desert can be ________ to some plants. 

a. inhospitable 

b. teeming

c. ceremonial

What is a- inhospitable. 

400

Laughter and cheers filled the stadium _____ with happy fans. 

a. teeming

b. kachina

c. wampum

What is a-teeming?

400

Name two prehistoric animals that early Native Americans hunted.  

What are wholly mammoths, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats, mastodons? 

400

What do we call the culture of the Native Americans who often settled along a river and built mounds for burials and ceremonies?

a. Mississippian Culture

b. Inuit Culture

c. Ancestral Pueblo Culture 

What is a- Mississippian Culture? 

400

This tribe lived in this type of home. 

a. Inuit

b. Ancestral Pueblo

c. Iroquois 

What is b- Ancestral Pueblo.

400

This region is warm and has fertile soil. It is home to the Seminole, Cherokee, and Chickasaw. 

a. Southeast

b. Arctic/Subarctic

c. Southwest 

What is a-southeast. 

500

______ is food that Native Americans eat and that is made by mixing dried, pounded, fine meat with melted fat.

a. Sachem

b. Wampum

c. Pemmican

What is c- pemmican?

500

This is the name of the frozen land area that connected Asia to North America. 

What is Beringia?

500

This was one of the main reasons the Inuit and Thule tribes migrated to the east.

a. farming was too difficult in the rocky area

b. conflicts with other tribes forced them out

c. bowhead whales disappeared under the ice 

What is the bowhead whales disappeared under the ice? 

500

Name this type of home shown AND the region it is found. 

a. Longhouse, Southeast

b. Wigwam, Inuit

c. Wigwam, Northeast 

What is c- Wigwam, Northeast. 

500

People of this region followed the moving herds of bison. 

a. Central Plains

b. Northeast 

c. Southwest 

What is c-Central Plains?

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