Vocabulary
moving from place to place to live
What is migratory?
The wool of the sheep was soft and warm to the touch.
Which plural possessive is correct?
a. sheep's wool
b. sheeps's wool
c. sheep's wool
a. sheep's wool
Early Native Americans keep migrating to find...
This region is cold and hard and home of the Thule and Inuit.
What is the Arctic/Sub Arctic region?
The food that Native Americans eat that is made by mixing dried, pounded, find meat with melted fat.
What is pemmican?
Sasha wore her ceremonial robe and walked across the stage to receive her diploma.
What does the word ceremonial mean in this sentence?
formal, traditional, and symbolic
Oscar and Jim's dog loves to play fetch.
What is the correct possessive pronoun?
a. His
b. Their
c. Our
b. Their
This is the method of getting food which allowed tribes to settle in one place and stop migrating.
What is farming?
This region is the usually hot and dry home of the Ancestral Pueblo, Hopi, and Zuni.
What is the Southwest region?
Every ______ dool of the Hopi people represents a certain spirit.
What is kachina?
The field was teeming with wildflowers, creating a beautiful carpet of colors.
What is the definition of teeming?
filled to overflowing
Roman acted _________ when he didn't share his new pencils with his classmates.
a. kindly
b. flexibly
c. selfishly
c. selfishly
This is one of the routes early Native Americans probably used to migrate from Asia to North America during the last Ice Age.
What is the frozen land bridge of Beringia and the Ice-Free Corridor?
This region is the warm fertile home of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chicasaw, Creek, and Seminole.
What is the Southeast region?
As many as fifty people might have lived in an Iroquois ______.
What is a longhouse?
Their baskets were beautiful and had an intricate weave.
What does the word intricate mean?
The blue whale is the _______ animal on Earth.
a. most large
b. largest
c. larger
b. largest
Besides traveling by land, this is a second route that Native Americans used to travel from Asia to North America.
What is the coastline of Beringia and North America?
Tribes in the hot, dry climate of desert valleys moved to greener, raised plateaus and mesas of the desert and developed ways to divert water from streams and rivers.
What is get enough water to grow crops?
Inuit of the Arctic/Subarctic lived in this type of dwelling.
The inhospitable climate of the Arctic makes it difficult for plants to grow.
What does the word inhospitable mean?
unfavorable and not friendly
Which introductory phrase indicated that the author knows information with certainty?
a. "In fact"
b. "Long ago"
c. "From a distance"
a. "In fact"
What is the Bow headed whale disappeared during the Mini Ice Age?
What are longhouses and wigwams?
This culture of Native Americans often settled along a river and built mounds for burials and ceremonies.
What is Mississippian culture?