Migration & Geography
The first people migrated from Asia to the Americas in search of this.
What is food?
This specific environment type characterizes the Southwest and Great Basin regions.
What is arid (or dry)?
The entire way of life for the Indigenous people of the Great Plains depended on this animal.
What is the bison (or buffalo)?
In the Eastern Woodlands, these three crops—corn, beans, and squash—were known by this nickname.
What are the "Three Sisters"?
Arctic people built these temporary winter shelters out of blocks of snow.
What are iglus (igloos)?
This is the name of the exposed land bridge that Siberian hunters crossed to enter North America.
What is Beringia?
This was the main crop grown by the mesa people of the Southwest.
What is corn?
This was the primary material used by Plains people to make their clothing.
What are animal hides?
These two features were the most important natural resources for the people of the Eastern Woodlands.
What are trees and waterways?
This development enabled most Indigenous people to stop migrating and settle in permanent villages.
What is farming?
This is the primary reason different cultural regions formed across North America
What is adaptation to the environment/natural resources?
Because of the lack of rain, Southwest groups like the Hopi had to develop these techniques for farming.
What are irrigation techniques?
This was the most important survival activity for people living in the Plains region.
What is hunting?
This is one way Eastern Woodlands people adapted the environment to clear land for planting corn.
What is burning trees?
This environmental factor had the strongest influence on the kind of shelters created by each group.
What is climate?
Historians and researchers study these (such as tools and pottery) to learn how people lived 10,000 years ago.
What are artifacts?
These people lived in towns clustered around large earthen mounds.
Who are the Indigenous groups of the Southeast?
In the Great Basin, people twisted together strips of these hides to make warm, thick robes.
What are rabbit hides?
This cultural region is specifically noted for its people living in wooden longhouses in the forest.
What is the Southeast (or Eastern Woodlands)?
This was the most important factor in determining the overall way of life for a specific Indigenous group.
What are food sources?
This common characteristic is used by historians to define an Indigenous cultural region.
What is a similar language?
This Southwest group was specifically known for managing a hot, dry climate with limited moisture.
Who are the Hopi?
This was the major challenge faced by groups in the Great Basin when trying to hunt.
What is a lack of large game animals?
Most Indigenous groups viewed their environment this way, rather than believing they owned the land.
What is being part of a community of living things?
This general concept is highlighted when a group makes tools and shelters from local plants and animals.
What is adaptation to the environment?