Vocabulary
What was the strip of land connecting Asia to North America during the Ice Age called?
What is Beringia?
Indigenous people of the Great Plains depended primarily on this animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
What is buffalo (bison)?
Hopi artists created carved wooden figures representing natural forces and ancestors to teach children; these were called what?
What are Kachina Dolls?
A trade good that is a raw material and not manufactured, such as animal fur or copper, is called this.
What is a commodity?
This type of map shows boundaries between countries and states.
What is a political map?
Early people who survived by hunting wild animals and gathering plants, seeds, nuts, and berries are called this.
What are hunter-gatherers?
Ancient peoples in dry desert regions, such as the Southwest, had to build irrigation systems for this reason.
What is to bring water to crops in dry, desert environments?
In many traditional Native American communities, this group served as clan-mothers, produced food, took care of families, and made pottery.
Who are women?
Give two examples of raw commodities traded by early Indigenous groups.
What are shark teeth, copper, animal fur, or dried fish?
If you wanted to travel directly south of New York, name two US states you could end up in.
What are Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina?
A custom, belief, or practice passed down within a culture from one generation to the next.
What are traditions?
Because bison roamed across vast grasslands, Great Plains tribes adapted by using bison hides to construct these portable shelters.
What are teepees?
What is bison?
An alliance of nations or tribes joining together to share resources, maintain peace, and resolve issues is called a league or a what?
What is a confederacy?
Name three US states that share a border with Canada.
What are Montana, New York, and North Dakota? (
Systems of channels or ditches created to move water from rivers to dry desert environments.
What is irrigation?
Many scientists believe the first people migrated from Asia to North America thousands of years ago by doing this.
What is crossing a land bridge (Beringia) while following animal herds?
Kachina dolls and children's learning games are examples of how the natural environment influenced this part of Indigenous life
What are daily roles, traditions, or cultural customs?
Trading networks were essential to ancient American Indian nations for this main reason.
Why is no single environment provided all necessary materials, so trade allowed groups to get resources they lacked locally?
Giving an exact street address (like 2999 Eggert Rd) is an example of Absolute Location, while saying a building is "north of the school" is an example of this.
What is Relative Location?
These artificial "floating gardens" were built in swampy lakes by the Aztecs to grow crops in dry island regions.
What are chinampas?
Name two different ways that geography and climate influenced how ancient Indigenous groups lived.
What is building irrigation systems in dry regions, following bison herds for food/clothing, or building chinampas in swampy lakes?
Name two specific examples of cultural traditions or daily life tools mentioned in your study guide.
What are Hopi Kachina dolls, Green Corn Ceremonies, using bison hides for teepees, or using bison bones for tools?
Name two reasons why American Indian nations formed organized governments like the Iroquois Confederacy.
What are to maintain fairness/peace, share resources, resolve conflict, or work toward common goals?
Building irrigation systems, hunting bison, and building houses are all examples of which of the 5 Themes of Geography?
What is Human-Environment Interaction?