Hoping & Origin Stories
According to the Hopi origin story, people first lived here before coming to the surface?
What is the center of the earth?
This word means a movement from one place to another.
What is migration?
What does the word "environment" mean in this unit?
everything in a given area.
What is an example of a natural resource from the review (something in nature useful to humans)?
any example: stone, wood, animals (answer may vary).
What are birds and plants.
1. Possible land bridge over the Bering Straight
OR
2. Possible ocean route but this would have required boats.
Match this environment to its location shown on the map: wide areas with many grasses used by bison (name the environment).
Grasslands.
Why couldn't the Inuit farm? Give the reason from the review.
because the ground is frozen.
According to the Hopi, when people arrived on Earth they scattered in search of this.
What is a good place to live?
They were following herd animals for food.
Why did early people most likely come to the Americas?
List two differences between grasslands and deserts (use words from the answer bank: very hot; dry; grasses; very few plants).
Grasslands: grasses (C) and Both: dry (B) - Desert: very hot (A) and very few plants (D).
Match this Inuit solution to the problem: people needed warm clothing but had no sheep's wool or cotton - what did they use?
used animal skins and furs.
Origin story.
What is a story that explains where people came from.
What is the region that connected Asia to North America?
Describe two features that mountains and Arctic ice fields have in common and one way they are different (from the unit).
Explain how the Inuit solved the problem of having little wood to make shelters. (Use details from the review).
used animal skins, driftwood, and bones to build shelters (igloo/other shelters).
Explain how an origin story like the Hopi helps explain why a group of people might change the way they live.
Origin stories link people's beginnings to their environments and resources.
Archaeologists find tools, fossils, and geographical evidence of lower sea levels revealing a land bridge to support this idea.
What is people moving across the Bering land bridge from Asia to North America?
(These people would become the first Native Americans.)
Given a region with little rainfall, very few rainfall, very few plants, and high daytime temperatures, identify the environment and explain one adaptation people living there might use.
(expected student answer: Desert; adaptations could include living near oases, using adaptations for shade and water conservation).
Choose two Inuit adaptations from the review (for hunting or travel or clothing). For each, name the problem it solved and explain how the adaptation worked.
(expected student answers: e.g., made goggles from bone or wood solved bright sun on snow; used animal fat for fuel solved little wood for fuel; explain how each worked).