Arriving to America Part 1
Scientists believe that they migrated from Asia to America because they were in search of food.
Who were the nomads?
What historians use to study Indigenous people from long ago.
What are artifacts?
This was an important water resource for the Northwest Coast people
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These people burned trees to plant corn to meet their needs in the environment.
Who are the Eastern Woodlands people?
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place.
What is migrate?
Scientists believed they crossed this to get from Asia to the Americas.
What is a land bridge/Beringia?
These sources determined the way of life of an Indigenous group in North America.
What are food sources and/or natural resources?
This group of people lived in a very arid (dry) climate
What is the Great Basin indigenous cultural group?
This cultural region is known for their dense grasses, treeless grasslands, and large bison herds.
What are the Great Plains?
Material found in nature, including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals; used and often depleted by humans.
What are natural resources?
Indigenous groups adapted to the environments they settled in explains why...
Why did different cultural regions formed in North America?
This determined the kind of homes each Indigenous group created based on temperature.
What is climate?
This is how the mesa people grew corn in the desert?
What were irrigation ditches?
These people relied on forests, trees, lakes, and rivers.
Who are the Eastern Woodlands people?
All of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants and climate.
What is environment?
The ability to use natural resources was most important for the indigenous people to...
What is survival?
Similar language characterizes this vocabulary term.
What is an characteristic of a cultural region?
This group saw hunting as an important activity and used animal hides for their clothing.
What is the Great Plains indigenous cultural group?
These people built river villages where drinking water, salmon, and driftwood were plentiful.
Who are the people of the Plateau?
A people's identity and way of life, including customs, food, dwellings, structure, ethics, and health/medicine.
What is culture?
This gave indigenous people/groups the ability to settle in permanent villages.
What is farming?
This described how most Indigenous groups viewed their environment.
What is they believed they were part of a community of living things?
This group lived in towns clustered around large eathern mounds
Who are the Southeast indigenous people?
This group used adobe to create thick walled houses to protect them from the summer heat and winter cold, known as a pueblo.
Who are the people of the Southwest?
An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language.
What is cultural region?