Cultural Regions
Lesson 2 Review
American Indian Culture
Vocabulary
American Indian Tribal Groups
100
This region lived in a narrow area of coastal land.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
100

The name of a sacred meeting place where tribe members could talk and perform religious ceremonies.

What is kiva?

100

American Indians in this region had a lot of wildlife in the area.

What is the Northwest Coast?

100
This is the movement from one place to another.
What is migration?
100

This is artifact helped the Kwakiutls showed their family history.

What is totem poles?

200

This region's hot, dry climate made finding plants, animals, and water hard to find

What is the Southwest?

200
This is to change the way one lives to fit different conditions.
What is adapt?
200

The name for apartment buildings used by American Indians from the Southwest

What are pueblos?

200

The way of living for a group of people.

What is culture?

200

Clay pots helped the Hopi people do this.

What cook, serve, and store food?

300
The forests of this region provided many useful plants and animals.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
300

Before they migrated to North America, scientists believe that American Indians first came from this continent.

What is Asia?

300

These crops were grown using little water.

What is a corn, beans, squash, and cotton ?

300

An object, such as a tool or clothing, made by a group of humans

What is an artifact?

300

Write one artifact used by American Indians from the Plateau that helped them adapt to their environment

What is:

underground homes?

digging stick?

clothing made from grass?

400

Adobe was an important technology in this region.

What is the Southwest?

400
These are the four environments American Indians found when they migrated to North America

What is the grasslands, deserts, mountains, and arctic ice fields?

400

The Pomos people used this as money

What is beads from seashells.

400

A flat-topped hill with steep sides

What is a mesa?

400

This is what the Seminole people called their homes

What is chickees?

500
The people of this region traveled farther and more often than the other cultural regions.
What is the Great Plains?
500
One theory says that people first came to North America during this Age.
What is the Ice Age?
500

This natural resource was used by the Kwakiutl people to create warm clothing

What is cedar bark?

500

Tribes that move from place to place

What is nomadic?

500

The Creeks people lived in these two states.

What are Georgia and Alabama?