I would Walk or Paddle 5,000 Miles
This frozen land bridge connected Asia to North America.
What is Beringia?
Learning to do this allowed Native Americans to settle in one place instead of constantly moving.
What is farming (agriculture)?
The clothing of the Plains groups would most likely be made from what large mammal.
What is the bison?
This Native American cultural region had a cold, snowy climate with very little rain.
What is the Arctic (Far North)?
Southwest Native Americans made homes from these sun-dried bricks.
What is adobe?
These wandering people followed herds of mammoths and mastodons.
Who are nomads?
This term describes the major change that occurred when humans learned how to farm.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Plains groups followed bison herds because they lived this type of traveling lifestyle.
What is a nomadic lifestyle?
Arctic people sometimes built these shelters from snow and ice.
What are igloos?
These large homes made from saplings and tree bark were common among the Iroquois.
What are longhouses?
This theory says early people traveled along the Pacific Coast following areas rich in kelp and fish.
What is the Kelp Highway Theory?
These three important crops were known as the “Three Sisters.”
What are corn, beans, and squash?
Plains people lived in this portable shelter that could be quickly put up and taken down.
What is a teepee?
Arctic people relied heavily on this geographic feature for food because farming was extremely difficult.
What is the ocean?
The Native American name Haudenosaunee has this meaning.
What is “People of the Longhouse”?
According to this theory, people traveled from Europe across the Atlantic using ice floes.
What is the Solutrean Theory?
Southwest Native Americans dug these to bring water to their crops in the dry environment.
What are irrigation ditches?
This feature of Great Plains geography made wood difficult to use as the main building material for homes.
What is a lack of trees?
This was a major group of natives who inhabited the arctic region of North America.
Who were the Inuit?
(Many Inuit people still live in the arctic region)
This feature of a teepee made it especially well suited for the nomadic lifestyle of Great Plains Native Americans.
What is its ability to be quickly taken down, moved, and rebuilt?
All human life originally began on this continent.
What is Africa?
These two physical factors had the greatest influence on how Native American cultures developed.
What are climate and geography?
These plants indirectly helped Plains Native Americans survive because they provided food for the bison.
What are prairie grasses?
Because the climate made farming difficult, people of the Far North relied on these types of resources for much of their food.
What are ocean resources
(fish, seals, whales, etc.)?
These masked religious dancers were an important part of Southwest spiritual traditions.
What are Kachinas?