Native American Groups
Native American Life
Wild Card
Rocks & Stuff
Soil
100
What technology was essential for people of the Desert Southwest?
What is adobe
100
What are traditions?
What is a set of customs that people create over time
100
Pick two Native American cultural regions and explain how they were similar and different.
What is answers will vary
100
What are the things that have to be true of every mineral?
What is patterned (crystal), inorganic, naturally forming, chemically based, on or near the surface
100
What needs to be in soil?
What is water, oxygen, organic material, rocks, minerals
200
Why did the people of the Pacific Northwest not rely on farming?
What is they had resources like lumber, fish, and deer
200
What is the purpose of folklore?
What is stories/music/dance that passes along a group's customs and traditions
200
What is migration?
What is the movement from one place to another
200
What are the three types of rocks and a characteristic of each?
What is igneous, made of molten material, sedimentary, made of sediment that has experienced extreme pressure, and metamorphic which is some other type of rock that has experienced heat and pressure and transformed
200
What is humus?
What is a dark-colored substance that forms as plant and animal remains
300
What was the purpose of tepees?
What is when people of the Great Plains went hunting, they needed somewhere to sleep
300
What is the purpose of a ceremony?
What is a set of activities that are done for some religious purpose
300
What is uniformitarianism?
What is the same geological processes that operate today operated in the past
300
What are the two types of weathering and examples of each?
What is mechanical, like abrasion or ice wedging and chemical like carbonic acid from carbon dioxide
300
What are some forms of soil conservation?
What is crop rotation, contour plowing, and conservation plowing
400
What are some geographical features that affect the people of the Eastern Woodlands?
What is the Mississippi River, forests
400
How do customs relate to a tradition?
What is customs are an accepted way of doing something in a group. A tradition is a group's collected customs that they carry out.
400
What is smelting?
What is the process of mixing an ore with other substances and then melting to separate the useful metal from other elements the ore contains
400
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
What is weathering is the breaking down of rocks and erosion is the transport of those broken down materials
400
What are some things that make soil no longer healthy?
What is exhausted soil, too much erosion
500
How did the Anasazi adjust to their environment?
What is they dug ditches for irrigation and built houses into cliffs
500
What animal was important in the Great Plains region and why?
What is it was a source of meat, clothing, bones for tools and homes, and part of their spiritual lives
500
What is oxidation?
What is the chemical process of oxygen changing the properties of an object
500
What things impact how much weathering a rock will undergo?
What is climate and rock type (permeable)
500
Why is soil considered to be nonrenewable?
What is it is in limited supply and it takes too long to form
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