The First Americans
Geography
Buffalo
Achievements
MISC
100

Natives crossed from this continent in order to get to North America.

Where is Asia?

100

______________ geography refers to the physical characteristics of a region. It includes the surface of the earth, soil, bodies of water, climate, etc.

What is physical geography?

100

The buffalo roamed this region of the United States.

What is the Great Plains?

100

Native healing involved using this wheel 

What is the medicine wheel?

100

Queen Elizabeth died in 1603. This means she died in this century.

When is the 17th century?

200

The Natives who once inhabited all of Hollister were this tribe.

Who are the Ohlone?

200

_______________ geography examines how people and their cultures are affected by physical geography, and how human activities affect the environment.

What is human geography?
200

Jerky was produced from this part of the buffalo.

What is muscle?

200

Native Americans invented this device that mothers would find useful.

What are baby bottles?

200

Ms. Felkins' rat was born in 2021. This means her rat was born in what century?

When is the 21st century?

300

Humans crossed into the America this many years ago.

What is 15,000 to 30,000 years ago?

300

Rivers are part of the physical geography of the northwest coast. So the human geography of that region means the natives who lived there would have a diet rich in ____________.

What is fish?
300

A tribe that wanders from place to place to follow the buffalo are said to be a _________ tribe.

What is nomadic?

300

These Code Talkers used their language to send secret messages during WWII and helped the U.S. and Allied Powers win the war.

Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?

300

The Renaissance began in Florence Italy during the 15th century. This means it began in the __00s?

When is the 1400s?

400

Natives crossed this land bridge in order to get to the Americas.

What is the Bering Land Bridge?

400

Daily Double: The human geography of Natives who lived in the Southwest involved planting maize and other crops next to the rivers. The physical geography of the southwest is..

What is desert?

400
The natives used buffalo fat to create these THREE useful everyday items for the bath and kitchen.

What is soap, cooking oil and candles?

400

Daily Double: The Founding Fathers were so impressed with the Iroquois League because of this special way they ran their government.

What is a participatory democracy?

400

Natives of the Great Plains often grew maize, also known as this popular crop grown today.

What is corn?

500

Daily Double: This term refers to the first people of a region.

What is "indigenous?"

500

The Natives of Washington and Oregon live in this region of the United States.

What is the Northwest?

500

60 million bison roamed the Great Plains until Europeans arrived and wiped them out. By 1910, only this many buffalo survived.

What is 5,000 buffalo?

500
Natives brewed the bark of the American black willow tree in order to get salicin, which when ingested into the body produces this active ingredient, which is found in aspirin today.

What is salicylic acid?

500

Fill in the blank: Native American cultural groups are very ____________. They have different beliefs, values and ways of living depending on the environments in which they lived.

What is diverse?