Native American Biomes
Native American Shelters
Native American Natural Resources
Grab Bag!
Short Answers
100
The Southwest Native Americans lived in this biome.
What is the desert?
100
This is the name of any structure used to protect people from the weather, animals or nature.
What is a shelter?
100
This is the most important natural resource for all people.
What is water?
100
Anything found in nature that people value.
What is a natural resource?
100
This should be in the first sentence of your short answer response.
What is the title and the author!?
200
The Great Plains Native Americans lived in this biome.
What are the grasslands?
200
This is the name of the shelters that were built by the Southwest Native Americans.
What is an adobe or a pueblo?
200
This was the most important natural resource for the Great Plains Native Americans.
What is buffalo?
200
These are the three sisters.
What are corn, beans and squash?
200
This is what you should do with the question when answering a short answer question.
What is flip the question!?
300
The Eastern Woodlands Native Americans lived in this biome.
What is the deciduous forest?
300
This is the name of the shelters that were built by the Great Plains Native Americans.
What are teepees (or tipis)?
300
This was the most important natural resource for the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast.
What is the ocean? (or trees!)
300
These are the four ways people can acquire (get) food.
What is to hunt, to fish, to gather and to farm?
300
You should include this type of evidence in your short answer in order to support your claim.
What is quoted and paraphrased evidence?
400
The Northwestern Native Americans live in this biome.
What is the coastlands?
400
This is the name of the shelters that were built by the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans.
What are wigwams and/or longhouses?
400
This was the most important natural resource for the Eastern Woodlands Native Americans.
What are trees?
400
These are FIVE examples of natural resources.
What are water, fruits, vegetables, berries, nuts, oil, oxygen, soil, sunlight, wind, etc? **Any 5 that work!**
400
This is what you should do in the final sentence of your short answer, right after the evidence.
What is explain your evidence and connect it back to the claim?
500
If Native Americans lived in a flat, treeless area that was extremely cold all year round, they would live in this biome.
What is the tundra?
500
This is the name of the shelters that were built by the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast.
What are plankhouses?
500
This was the most important natural resource for the Southwest Native Americans (besides water).
What is clay?
500
This is the reason why corn cannot grow without people.
What is the seeds cannot plant themselves because people must first remove the husk?
500
This is how many sentences you should include in your short answer response.
What is AT LEAST 3 sentences? (1- title/author, then flip your question and state the claim, 2- provide quoted or paraphrased evidence, 3- explain your evidence and connect it back to the claim)
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