Southwest Region
Plains Region
North East
Pacific Coast
Vocabulary
Houses
100
What is the climate of the Southwest region?
Hot and Dry
100
What weapon did the Plains Native Americans use to hunt buffalo?
Bow and arrow
100
What does the geography of these region look like?
Lots of Forests. Many areas of small mountains with an abundance of Rivers and lakes.
100
Name TWO things the Northwest Native Americans built with wood
Houses, canoes and totem poles
100
a weapon used for hunting
bow and arrow
100
a house made of wood
plank house
200
What is an adobe house made out of?
Clay
200
Where is the Plains region?
Middle of America
200
Why did the Woodland Native Americans have three different kinds of houses?
The area was so big and the climate was different.
200
What resource did they have a lot of in the Northwest?
Wood
200
a weapon used to get fish
spear
200
a house made out of ice
igloo
300
What kind of house did the Southwest Native Americans live in?
Adobe
300
What kind of house did the Plains Native Americans live in?
Teepee
300
Why did the Woodland Native Americans have a lot of food.
They hunted and fished
300
What animal was hunted the most in the Northwest?
Deer
300
A leader of a Native American tribe
chief
300
a house made of buffalo skin and sticks
teepee
400
How did the Pueblo of southwest get most of their food?
Farmed
400
What did the Plains Native Americans eat and how did they get it?
They hunted buffalo.
400
What were the TWO of the THREE homes of the Woodland Native Americans?
chickees, longhouses and wigwams
400
What is a totem pole?
A manmade pole made of wood used for tribes.
400
a piece of stone attached to a bow or spear
arrowhead
400
a long house made of sticks and mats for a whole tribe
longhouse
500
Name one state that is part of the Southwest region?
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado
500
The Plains Native Americans did a dance for one of their Gods. What was the dance called?
Sun Dance
500
What are THREE ways the Woodland Native Americans got their food?
They hunted, gathered and farmed and fished.
500
Describe the climate of The Northwest?
Hot summers and cold winters
500
Group of related families
Tribe
500
a circle house made out of wood or mats
wigwam
600
Pueblo religion focused on these two things
Rain and Maize
600
Name two techniques other than Bow and arrow that were used to hunt buffalo?
Chasing them over cliffs, Driving them into corrals, trapping them in rings of fire
600
give 2 roles did women play in the Iroquois League?
They elected the male members of council, they could overrule decisions, and replace council members.
600
One of the best food sources of the Miwok was?
Fishing
600
Matrilineal
People traced their ancestry through their mothers
600
a house made out of clay
adobe
700
Southwest regional National Park where you can visit the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo...
Mesa Verde National Park
700
The first Spanish conqueror to bring horses to the new world was...
Hernán Cortés in 1519.
700
Name the 5 tribes of the Iroquois?
Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca
700
What plant did the Miwoks use to make Baskets, houses, and floats (for traveling on rivers)?
Tule Reeds
700
Shaman
Spirital Leader
700
open house without a roof or walls
chickee