How Geography and Climate Affect the Lives of Early People
Common Ways of Life among American Indian Cultures
How American Indian Groups Work Together
100
During the ice age, these huge sheets of ice froze most of the Earth's water, exposing a land bridge (the Bering Straight), which nomads traveled over.
What is a glacier?
100
Folklore, or the act of passing down stories and customs is an example of this.
What is tradition?
100
This is a system for organizing resources, such as money and goods.
What is economy?
200
American Indians could give up their lives as nomads, once they developed this technology that of raising plants and animals for use.
What is agriculture?
200
This celebration for the Pacific Northwest is a large, social feast.
What is a potlatch?
200
True or false: Trading goods and ideas was a way that American Indian Groups worked together.
What is True.
300
Because this Indian Group lived in a narrow area of coastal land between present day California and Alaska, they had plenty of food and other natural resources found in the oceans, rivers, and forests.
Who are the Pacific Northwest?
300
American Indian celebrations and ceremonies have served these three purposes.
What are nature, religion, and social?
300
This process of exchanging goods for other goods, was one way that American Indian Groups met their needs.
What is barter?
400
This beast provided meat, clothing, shelter, and tools to the Mandan group of the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo?
400
This is the number one reason why folklore was passed down as spoken stories.
What is most indian groups didn't have a written language.
400
When groups produced more than they needed, they bartered the (vocabulary word meaning more than was needed) with other groups.
What is surplus?
500
The Desert Southwest groups used adobe to build large apartment-style houses. Pacific Northwest groups lived in wooden plank houses. Eastern Woodland groups built either longhouses or wigwams. People in the Great Plains lived in earth lodges and portable tents called tepees. All of these groups built shelters out of things they found in their environment. These things are found in nature and are called . . .
What are natural resources?
500
This is an accepted way of doing something, such as gretting people or making food.
What is custom?
500
Under American Indian leader Deganawidah, this government was formed to unite 5 Iroquois groups under one set of laws.