Arctic & Northwest Coast
This is a winter home built out of packed blocks of ice and snow.
What is an igloo?
This is a village-like apartment home built out of sun-dried clay and mud bricks.
What is a pueblo?
This large, shaggy animal provided the Plains tribes with food, clothing, and tools.
What is a buffalo (or bison)?
This long, wooden shelter was built by Northeast tribes and could hold up to 20 families.
What is a longhouse?
This type of fish was the most important food source for Northwest Coast tribes.
What is salmon?
This is the type of hot, dry environment with very little rain where the Hopi and Pueblo lived.
What is a desert?
This is a cone-shaped, portable tent made from wooden poles and animal skins.
What is a teepee?
This nickname represents the three most important crops grown together: corn, beans, and squash.
What is the three sisters?
Northwest tribes carved these tall wooden poles out of giant trees to tell family stories.
What is a totem pole?
This is the main crop grown by Southwest farmers, also known as maize.
What is corn?
This word describes a lifestyle of moving frequently from place to place to follow food sources.
What is nomadic?
Southeast tribes used this material made from branches, twigs, and mud plaster to build sturdy huts.
What is wattle and daub?
This is a large, permanent wooden home built from cedar trees that housed multiple families.
What is a plank house (or longhouse)?
This is the name of the sun-dried clay mud used to make Southwest homes.
What is adobe?
What animal did the Spanish bring that lead to the tribes being able to follow the buffalo?
What is a horse?
This type of environment is filled with thick trees, rivers, and changing seasons.
What is forest (woodlands)?
This is a thick, warm coat made from animal fur used by Arctic tribes to survive freezing weather.
What is a parka?
Because water was scarce, Southwest tribes used this type of farming to catch and save rainwater for crops.
What is dry farming (or irrigation)?
This flat, massive environment is covered in grasses with very few trees.
What are the grasslands (or plains/prairies)?
This is an open-sided shelter with a raised floor and a grass-thatched roof used in the warm Southeast.
What is a chickee?