Vocabulary
Regions 1
Regions 2
In the beginning
Miscellaneous
100
A people's way of life including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing
What is culture?
100
Bison was the main food source in this cultural region
What is Great Plains?
100
American Indians of this region lived in igloos
What is the Arctic?
100
This term refers to the original inhabitants of North America before European contact
What are Native Americans (American Indians)?
100
Historians learn about the lives of American Indians from a specific type of evidence left behind from the past
What are artifacts?
200
To change in order to survive conditions faced
What is adapt?
200
American Indians in this region lived in adobe houses on top of flat mesas
What is Southwest?
200
An important resource of American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands
What are forests (trees), lakes, or rivers?
200
This "land bridge" connected Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
200
These types of temporary shelter, made from poles and bison hide, were commonly used by Plains tribes
What are tipis?
300
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place
What is migrate?
300
American Indians of this region lived in wooden longhouses in the forest.
What is Eastern Woodlands?
300
Native Americans of this region lived in towns clustered around large earthen mounds (burial grounds)
What is Southeast?
300
Many tribes migrated in search of these essential resources for survival (3)
What are food, water, and shelter?
300
This term is used to describe people who move from place to move and have no permanent home
What is nomad/nomadic?
400
Useful material found in nature including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals
What is natural resource?
400
Technology used by mesa people to grow corn in the desert.
What are irrigation ditches?
400
Native Americans of this region lived in underground pit houses beside major rivers
What is Plateau?
400
This factor best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America
What is the (different) environment?
400
This resource was the primary food source for many Native American tribes in the Northwest Coast
What are fish, particularly salmon?
500
A vast, treeless plain made mostly of frozen soil
What is tundra?
500
An important water resource for Native Americans of the Northwest Coast
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
What is Wattle and Daub?
500
Term used to describe a period when glaciers covered much of North America, influencing migration routes
What is the Ice Age?
500
This sandy clay can be dried into bricks and used for building
What is adobe?