A treeless region where the subsoil is permanently frozen.
What is a tundra?
100
A Native American tribe that lives near a river might use this for transportation.
What is a boat?
100
This ancient civilization is considered to have been an empire because they conquered many different groups of people and brought them under one ruler.
Who are the Aztecs?
100
Many tribes in Alaska use this method of transportation because snow often covers the ground.
What are sled dogs?
200
A word that means to move from one place to another.
What is migration?
200
The framework for government.
What is a constitution?
200
The Native Americans of the Great Plains use these for transportation, at least after contact with Europeans.
What are horses?
200
Only tribes in Meso-america use this type of hard, black stone because it is not nearly as prevalent in North America.
What is obsidian?
200
Crow indians come from this region.
What are the Great Plains?
300
A society with cities, specialized jobs, and a complex culture.
What is civilization?
300
The use of tools to do things.
What is technology?
300
Nomadic tribes would live in these because they moved around following herds of buffalo.
What is a tipi?
300
This crop is common among all three of the ancient civilizations of Meso-america because it is filling and grows well in that region.
What is corn?
300
The Abenaki come from this mountainous region.
What is Northwest and Central Plains?
400
A way of life shared by people who have similar arts, beliefs, customs, and methods of doing things.
What is culture?
400
When a carver forms a special bond with an animal spirit.
What is a totem?
400
It is still a mystery, but many historians believe that the first Americans came from Asia by crossing this geological form (hint: there probably used to be a land bridge that melted after the ice age).
What is the Bering Strait?
400
These two civilizations both built large burial mounds in North America.
Who are the Mississippi and the Hopewell?
400
The Seminole Indians come from this region (hint: The Seminoles is the mascot for Florida State University).
What is the Southeast?
500
The name for the first people in America. It comes from the Greek word "palaios," which means ancient.
Who are the Paleo-Indians?
500
Killing and burning trees to create fields and fertilize the soil.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
500
The five regions of North America.
What are Northwest (Pacific, Plateau and Great Basin), Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast (Central Plains), and Southeast?
500
This group is called the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica.
Who are the Olmec?
500
The Indians of the Southwest lived in permanent communities because they were farmers. Because of this trait, Spanish explorers called them *blank* Indians; the Spanish word for "village."