Geography
Which side of Kansas recieves the most Rainfall per year?
Eastern
Name of the 1st people to live in the america's
The Clovis people
The Land bridge theory theorizes humans came to America from what continent
Asia
Zebulon Pike
The state is named after what Native American Tribe
Kansa (kaw)
A nickname we learned in this unit for Kansas is
America's Heartland
What continent do scientist theorize human civilization started?
Africa
What event allowed there to be a land bridge from asia to north america?
Ice Age
This guy referred to Kansas as "the Great American Desert"
Stephen Long
When a tribe does not live in one location, but rather relocates to where they find food is called.
Nomadic
Under the farms and ranches of western Kansas lies an underground reservoir called
Ogallala Aquifer
Something made or used by people from the past, that we find today are called.
Artifacts
The most accepted theory on how people came to the America's is.
The Land Bridge Theory
The goal with these guys was to find a continuous water system from St. Louis to the Pacific ocean
Louis and Clark
Name 2 Native American Tribes that lived in Kansas other than Kansa (kaw)
osage, pawnee, cheyenne, apache, wichita, commanche, Kiowa
Kansas is shaped like a rectangle with a “bite” taken out of the northeast corner. Which river made "bite" shape?
Missouri River
If a group is Nomadic that means
They do not stay in one place, rather move around to find food
The Coastal Migration Hypothesis proposes that
People came to the America's via boats along the pacific coast
Why did the Spanish man Coronado come to Kansas
Came looking for Quivira "the city of gold"
This state is where a majority of native american tribes were located too
Oklahoma
The geographic region Osawatomie is in?
Osage Cuestas
How did clovis and native americans pass down their traditions?
Orally
The Solutrean Hypothesis is theorized that groups of humans came to America by
small boats during the ice age from europe, through the arctic into North Eastern North America.
Which animal did the French almost hunt to extinction?
The beaver
Had sturdy structures, cultivated crops