Vocabulary
Region Location
Name that Region
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Lasting Effects (fill in the blank)
100
Objects made by humans that can teach us about the past
What is an artifact?
100
Name region number 1
What is the Great Plains?
100
This region is found on the Gulf of Mexico. It has river valleys, swamps, and mountains. The Creeks and Choctaws lived here and used flat bottom canoes to help with fishing.
What is the Southeast?
100
This home was easily moved and found in the Great Plains region.
What is a teepee?
100
______ was the main food of most Native Americans and was eaten at almost every meal. It was used to make ____bread, ______pudding, and ______ syrup.
What is corn?
200
The way people live in a region describes this
What is culture?
200
Name region number 4
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
200
This region was the largest in North America. There were endless grasslands with big game for hunting. The Sioux and Cheyennes used buffalo for many of their needs.
What is the Great Plains?
200
The Native Americans in the region lived in underground winter homes to protect them from the cold.
What is the Plateau?
200
Lake ______, found in Ohio, got it's name from Native Americans.
What is Lake Erie?
300
A narrow, deep valley with steep sides
What is a gorge?
300
Name region number 2
What is the Southwest?
300
This region is found in the Ohio valley. It had many waterways available including rivers and lakes. The dense forests were a great resource for the Mohawks and Delaware Indians living here.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
300
The Native Americans in this region build cone-shaped redwood homes from the natural resource in their redwood forests.
What is the California-Intermountain region?
300
Native American influences in transportation was great. The first developed the __________ which many indian groups used to travel the rivers, streams and lakes of North America.
What is a canoe?
400
A flat topped hill area with steep sides
What is a mesa?
400
Name region number 3 and 5
What is the Northwest Coast and Plateau?
400
This region has some deserts, coastal mountains and shoreline. It has both extreme heat and cold with limited rainfall. The Shoshones and Pomos lived here and used the redwood forests to build their homes. They used shells for jewelry and money.
What is the California Intermountain region?
400
The reason native americans in the southeast built their chickees on platforms with no walls.
What is because the land was swampy and the climate was hot.
400
Land that the American government set aside for Native Americn groups to live on is called a ______________.
What is a reservation?
500
This describes people who move frequently from place to place.
What is nomadic?
500
Name region number 6 and 7
What is the California Intermountain and the Southeast?
500
This region was home to the Tlingits and Chinooks. They lived in a mild climate with heavy rainfall. They used the bark from trees to create waterproof clothing and did a lot of fishing on the Pacific Coast.
What is the Northwest Coast?
500
These homes in the Southwest were built from available clay because trees were scarce.
What are adobe pueblos?
500
Many Native Americans today struggle with poverty and _______________ on their reservations.
What is unemployment?
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