Eastern Woodland
Southwest
Great Basin
Great Plains
Pacific Northwest
Land Bridge Theory
100

Which of the following states could have been home to Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands cultural group?

A. Utah

B. South Carolina 

C. New Mexico

D. Alaska

B. South Carolina 

 

100

The Southwest Native American cultural grouping includes which present day states?

Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Utah 

100

The Great Basin Native American cultural group would have existed in these present day states. 

Nevada, Idaho, and Utah

100

Name one state that would have been home to Native Americans of the Great Plains cultural group. (If you need to Google a map of the US to compare, take your time and do so)! 

100

Native Americans that were members of the Pacific Northwest cultural group would have lived in which present day states?

Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and northern California 

100

What continent did the first people to come to America come from, according the the Land Bridge Theory?

Asia

200

What are these shelters used by Easter Woodland Indians called?

200

What is the name of this Southwestern Native American home? 

Pueblo

200

What is the name of this Great Basin Native American house? 

Hogan House 

200

Native Americans of the Great Plains centered their lives around the Buffalo. Even their shelters were made from buffalo hide. What is the name of the type of shelters used by Great Plains Indians? 

Tepees 

200

What material were the plank homes of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans made of?

cedar wood 

200

How did the first people to come to North America get here, according to the Land Bridge Theory?

They walked across the frozen land bridge that formed where the Bering Strait now is. 

300

How did the Eastern Woodland Indians get their food? What did they eat?

Hunter-gather and Farm; nuts, berries, squash, beans, corn, moose, deer, and bear

300

How did the Southwest Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?

hunter-gatherers and farmers; corn (maize), beans, and squash 

300

How did the Great Basin Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?

Hunter-gather; animals were scarce for hunting (rarely available); seeds, nuts, berries, plants

300

How did the Great Plains Native Americans get their food? What did they eat?

hunter-gather and farm; squash, pumpkin, buffalo, corn, beans 

300

How did the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest get their food? What did they eat? 

hunter-gatherer; nuts, berries, salmon, clams, whale, elk 

300

What were the first people to come to America most likely following? 

Something to hunt, such as buffalo

400

What is the name for the medicine that they believed could cure anything?

Shaman 

400

What kind of dances were done to help bring the rain? 

snake dances

400

What did they believe had spirits?

Everything on earth (plants, animals, rocks, and water)

400

What was the name of the celebrations or prayers to the "Great Spirit?"

Powwows 

400

What did they use to tell stories about their ancestors and display wealth?

totem pole 

400

How did the first "Americans" get their food?

They were hunter-gatherers.

500

Name one tribe from this cultural group. 

Algonquian, Cherokee, Shawnee, Seminole, Iroquois 

500

Name one tribe that belonged to the Southwest cultural group. 

Navajo, Pueblo, Apache 

500

Name one tribe that belonged to the Great Basin cultural group. 

Ute, Shoshone, Washo 


500

Name one tribe that belonged to the Great Plains cultural group. 

Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Comanche, Crow 

500

Name one tribe that belonged to the Pacific Northwest cultural group?

Tlingit, Nez Perce, Salish 

500

True of False: Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America?

FALSE! 

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