Vocabulary
First People
Early Cultures
PA's Regions
Mixed Bag
100
an area of land that has one or more features in common PA has five of these.
What is a region?
100
the earliest people to live in North America
What are the Paleo-Indians?
100
this was a small round house made of bark with a dome shaped roof
What is a wigwam
100
the five regions include
What are allegheny plateu, eerie lowland, ridge and valley, piedmont, and atlantic coastal plain
100
Capital of Pennsylvania
What is Harrisburg
200
a certain type of land such as mountain or valley
What is a landform
200
these kinds of indians used spears,hammers, and fishhooksmade from bone shell stone and wood
What are the archaic indians
200
a long bark covered building
What is a longhouse
200
largest region
What is the allegheny plateau
200
People and animals have to do ___________ to changing enviornments
What is adapt
300
the height of a landform above sea level PA's changes from 0 feet to more than 3,000 feet
What is elevation
300
these indians discovered new foods such as corn and squash
What are the woodland indians?
300
early indian cultures used these to trade
What is wampum?
300
this region borders lake eerie
What is the eerie lowland
300
ealry people followed and hunted animals such as these
What is the wooly mammoth
400
the typical weather of a place over a long period of time PA's is continental
What is climate
400
thousands of years ago earth experienced this period. glaciers or huge sheets of moving ice covered the earth
What is the ice age?
400
Lenni Lenape means....
What is original people
400
narrow strip of land located in the far southeastern portion of the state
What is the atlantic coastal plain?
400
Pennyslvania's nickname
What is the keystone state?
500
an object made by human hands
What is an artifact?
500
People in prehistoric times may have come to North America by crossing a land bridge over this sea
What is the Bering Sea?
500
Early PA indian groups included name 2
What is algonquian,and haudenosaunee
500
a wide strip of land that lies in the center of the state
What is the ridge and valley region
500
the movement of water from earth to the atmosphere and back again
What is the water cycle?
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