Vocabulary
Land and Water
Early People
Woodland Indians
Vocabulary II
100
An area that shares various features, such as landforms or climate
What is a region?
100
This region of Maryland is the area along the Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
100
These are the first people to come to Maryland.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
100
This group of Maryland Indians built wigwams for houses. (Hint: Their name means "People of the Tidewater")
Who are the Nanticoke?
100
A way of doing something that is shared by a group, such as shaking hands.
What is a custom?
200
The height of a landform above sea level
What is elevation?
200
This river and the Chesapeake Bay are Maryland's main bodies of water.
What is the Potomac River?
200
The Woodland Indians were the first people to do this in Maryland (they no longer depended on hunting and fishing)
What is farm?
200
The tribe of Maryland Indians settled in villages north of the Chesapeake Bay along the Susquehanna River. They depended mostly on farming.
Who are the Susquehannock?
200
the exchange of goods and services
What is trade?
300
An object made by humans
What is an artifact?
300
The name of this plateau means "foot of the mountain"
What is the Piedmont Plateau?
300
When the Woodland Indians could not find or make things they needed, they did this.
What is trade with other tribes?
300
The Maryland Indians (and most Eastern Woodland Indians) used animal skins to make these items they needed to survive.
What are articles of clothing?
300
Something useful from nature
What is a natural resource
400
Describes people and things that existed before writing was invented.
What is prehistoric?
400
This region is Maryland's mountain region with deep valleys and mountain ridges.
What are the Appalachian Highlands?
400
When the Paleo-Indians came to Maryland, this was happening in the environment.
What is the Ice Age was ending?
400
Woodland Indians usually had this number of chiefs.
What is two? One who made decisions during peace time and one who made decisions during war time.
400
A way of life shared by a certain group of people.
What is a culture?
500
A large house with a frame of wood poles covered with sheets of bark.
What is a longhouse?
500
This region of Maryland has the mildest climate.
What is the Atlantic Coastal Plain?
500
Scientists believe this area of dry land once connected Asia and North America allowing people to cross to North America.
What is a land bridge?
500
This tribe of Maryland Indians were the largest group on the Western Shore.
Who are the Piscataway?
500
Land that is covered by water for part of the year.
What is a wetland?
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