Variety
The First Americans
Cultural Regions A
Cultural Regions B
Environment
100
This word is used to describe people who move from one place to another as the seasons change or to follow a food source.
What is nomadic?
100
There were the first people to live on the North American continent even before European explorers "discovered" it.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
This animal was considered to be sacred to the tribes of the Great Plains. They used it for clothing, shelter, tools and food.
What is the bison or buffalo?
100
This is an apartment style building made of clay and stone built by tribes of the Southwest cultural region.
What is a pueblo?
100
This cultural region had a dry climate with very little rain. Natural resources were scarce.
What is the Southwest?
200
This is something made my humans that helps archaeologists learn about the past.
What is an artifact?
200
The first Americans used this to migrate to North America.
What is a land bridge?
200
This cultural region lived in an environment with mild winters and hot, humid summers. There was plenty of rain. They lived in raised shelters called chickees.
What is the Southeast?
200

People of the Northwest region built these outside their homes as a symbol of their family or clan. It told the history of the family or clan.

What is a totem pole?

200
This cultural region's environment has thick forests, streams, and rivers. Birch bark is plentiful and deer and turkey inhabit the land.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
300
This word is used to describe a way of living for a group of people. This includes their religion, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
300
This is the continent the first Americans came from when migrating to North America.
What is Asia?
300
Native Americans in the Great Plains region used these for shelter because they were easy to move from one place to another.
What is a teepee?
300

Buckskin smocks were worn by the people in this cultural region to keep them warm during colder weather.

What is the Eastern Woodlands?

300
This cultural region has flat land with very little trees and plants. Buffalo make their home in this region.
What is the Great Plains?
400

As native people did not originally have access to metal working, they utilized stone and obsidian tools known as ______?

What are lithics?

400

As they migrated, early Native Americans had to do this to survive in their environment. It means "to change to fit your environment."

What is adapt?

400

This region's tribes place totem poles in front of their homes. Totem poles showed the family's history.

What is Northwest Coast?

400

This great plains tribe is known for its long, trailing, fierce war bonnets.

Who are the Sioux?

400
This cultural region is known for its swamps and hot, humid climate.
What is the Southeast?
500
This was a natural resource tribes of the Northwest Coast used to make totem poles, shelters, and clothing.
What is cedar wood?
500

Give two words to correctly describe the environment on the Great Plains.

What is few trees and plants, grassy, and little rain or mountains?

500

This region is known for peaceful Native Americans, such as the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute people.

What is the Great Basin region?

500
Wigwams, the shelter of the Eastern Woodland tribes, were made of this material.
What is birch bark?
500

This cultural region is known for its harsh, snowy climate, and a tundra biome.

What is the Arctic Region?

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