VOCABULARY
EARLY AMERICANS
NATIVE AMERICAN GROUPS
CULTURE & TRADITIONS
PEOPLE & PLACES
100

Clue: This is a large, rounded pile.

Correct Response: What is a mound?

100

Clue: This was the land bridge that connected Asia and North America.

Correct Response: What is Beringia?

100


Clue: This Native American nation lives in Florida.

Correct Response: What is the Seminole Nation?

100

Clue: This dome-shaped shelter was made from snow blocks.

Correct Response: What is an igloo?

100

Clue: This is the area where the Ancestral Pueblo lived, now known as the Four Corners.

Correct Response: What is the Four Corners?

200

Clue: This type of brick is made from sun-dried clay.

Correct Response: What is adobe?

200

Clue: These were the people who lived in Beringia and survived by hunting and gathering.

Correct Response: Who are hunter-gatherers?

200

Clue: These Native Americans were cliff dwellers who lived in the Four Corners area.

Correct Response: Who are the Ancestral Pueblo?

200

Clue: This special Inuit canoe was made from animal hide.

Correct Response: What is a kayak?

200


Clue: This is why the Mound Builders stayed in one place.

Correct Response: What is farming?

300

Clue: This large, prehistoric, elephant-like animal was covered with hair.

Correct Response: What is a mammoth?

300

Clue: This is the continent where the earliest Americans came from.

Correct Response: What is Asia?

300

Clue: These Pueblo people live in villages on the high mesas.

Correct Response: Who are the Hopi?

300

Clue: These were the three important crops grown by the Haudenosaunee.

Correct Response: What are the Three Sisters?

300


Clue: These people were the ancestors of the Creek.

Correct Response: Who were the Mound Builders?

400

Clue: This long, thin weapon was made from a pointed stick, sometimes with a stone or metal tip.

Correct Response: What is a spear?

400


Clue: This is how long ago the first Native Americans in Mexico began raising corn.

Correct Response: What is seven thousand years ago?

400


Clue: These two groups migrated to the Southwest from northern Canada.

Correct Response: Who are the Navajo and Apache?

400

Clue: These were the homes where the Haudenosaunee lived.

Correct Response: What are longhouses?

400


Clue: He created a set of symbols for writing the Cherokee language.

Correct Response: Who is Sequoyah?

500

Clue: This small strip of land connects two large land masses.

Correct Response: What is a land bridge?

500

Clue: These caused the Native American population to decrease rapidly after Europeans arrived.

Correct Response: What are germs?

500


Clue: This Native American group had a seven-sided council house.

Correct Response: Who are the Cherokee?

500


Clue: This is what the saying “smoking the peace pipe” means.

Correct Response: What is sitting down and talking calmly?

500

Clue: The seven sides of the Cherokee council house represented these.

Correct Response: What are the group’s clans?

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