Types of Homes
Locations of Tribes
General Trivia
General Trivia
Essay questions
100

Name the type of home that the following tribe used.  Your choices are: Teepee, longhouse, hogan, Adobe apartment, wooden plank house, pit house of stones covered with earth


Iroquois

longhouse

100

Name the location of the following tribe.  Choose from the following: Arctic, Northwest Coast, California Intermountian, Great Plains, Eastern woodlands, Southwest, Southeast, Mesoamerica

Iroquois

Eastern Woodlands

100

What city did the Aztec live?

Tenochititlan

100

Which tribes often traveled in canoes or kayaks?


a. Dine and Pueblo

b. Maya and Mound Builders

c. Inuit and Tlingit

d. Hastard and Kyawa 

c. Inuit and Tlingit

100

Why would someone think that religion was important to both Aztecs and Maya?

Both groups built temples to honor their gods.  They also had human sacrifices to please their gods.

200

Name the type of home that the following tribe used.  Your choices are: Teepee, longhouse, hogan, Adobe apartment, wooden plank house, pit house of stones covered with earth

Pueblo

adobe apartment

200

Name the location of the following tribe.  Choose from the following: Arctic, Northwest Coast, California Intermountian, Great Plains, Eastern woodlands, Southwest, Southeast, Mesoamerica

Inuit

Arctic

200

What were the Three Sisters?

They were crops that made fertile soil when grown together. 

200

How did tribes in the Pacific Northwest use Totem poles?

They used Totem poles to represent family stories. 

200

Compare and contrast the cultures of the Eastern Woodlands and the Pacific Northwest. 

Both cultures used wood to build their shelters.  They both were hunters, however the Eastern Woodlands farmed but the Pacific Northwest couldn't farm. Both told stories but Pacific NW used totem poles and the Eastern Woodland used wampan
300

Name the type of home that the following tribe used.  Your choices are: Teepee, longhouse, hogan, Adobe apartment, wooden plank house, pit house of stones covered with earth

Great Plains Tribes


teepee

300

Name the location of the following tribe.  Choose from the following: Arctic, Northwest Coast, California Intermountian, Great Plains, Eastern woodlands, Southwest, Southeast, Mesoamerica

Aztec

Mesoamerica

300

What is the main reason Plains tribes were nomadic?

They were nomadic because they were following the buffalo to hunt them. 

300

What did the pueblo develop or invent to use to adapt to their climate?


Pueblo's developed irrigation to help adapt to their dry climate. 

300

How was the Inuit culture influenced by their environment?

Since there is Permafrost in the Tundra, plants can't grow there so the Inuit can't farm, they must solely hunt.  They also need to build their shelters partially underground to protect from the elements.  They eat seal, caribou, and walrus, and use the hides for clothing. 

400

Name the type of home that the following tribe used.  Your choices are: Teepee, longhouse, hogan, Adobe apartment, wooden plank house, pit house of stones covered with earth

Inuit

pit house of stones covered with earth

400

Name the location of the following tribe.  Choose from the following: Arctic, Northwest Coast, California Intermountian, Great Plains, Eastern woodlands, Southwest, Southeast, Mesoamerica

Kwakiutl

Northwest Coast

400

What was the purpose of the wampum?

It was to tell a story or show someone's authority. 

400

The Maya civilization was very advanced.  Name the two things our text said that they developed. 

a 365 day calendar

hieroglyphics

500

Name the type of home that the following tribe used.  Your choices are: Teepee, longhouse, hogan, Adobe apartment, wooden plank house, pit house of stones covered with earth

Tingit & Kwakiutl 

Dine



wooden plank house


hogan

500

Name the location of the following tribe.  Choose from the following: Arctic, Northwest Coast, California Intermountian, Great Plains, Eastern woodlands, Southwest, Southeast, Mesoamerica

Dine

Lakota

Southwest


Great Plains

500

List the three theories of how the first North Americans came to North America.

1. They migrated across a land bridge from Asia during the Ice Age.

2. Oral traditions said they were just always there in that area. 

3. They sailed boats along the coast line to North America

500

What are cliff dwellings and what tribe used them. 

Homes that are carved out of the side of cliffs, the pueblo primarily used them

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