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Cumulative Review
Vocabulary
100
The climate of Virginia is relatively what?
What is Mild
100
Name all three language groups.
What is Algonquian, Siouan, Iroquoian
100
Name the three major Indian tribes.
What is Powhatan, Monacan, Cherokee
100
Name Virginia's four main rivers
What is Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James
100
What is a peninsula?
What is A piece of land bordered by water on three sides.
200
Name two things the American Indians did to adapt to the Summer season.
What is hunted, fished grew crops, built shelter
200
Which language group was primarly located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region?
What is Algonquian
200
Which American Indian Tribe lived mainly in the Tidewater Region?
What is Powhatan
200
Name the cities located on the James River.
What is Jamestown and Richmond
200
What is an artifact?
What is objects made and used by humans
300
Name two things the American Indians did to adapt to the Fall season.
What is harvested crops, hunted, preserved food
300
Which language group was primarly located in the Piedmont Region?
What is Souian
300
Which American Indian Tribe lived mainly in the Piedmont Region?
What is Monacan
300
What is a plateau?
What is Area of elevated land that is flat on top.
300
What is a fossil?
What is the imprint of something that once lived (Plants and Animals)
400
Name two things the American Indians did to adapt to the Winter season.
What is hunted, lived on stored food, made clothing/shoes from deer hides and other animals.
400
Which language group was primarly located in Southwestern/Southern Virginia near North Carolina?
What is Iroquoian
400
Which American Indian Tribe lived mainly Southwest/Southern Virginia (near North Carolina)?
What is Cherokee
400
Describe the Piedmont Region.
What is Rolling hills, west of the Fall Line
400
What is Archaeology?
What is the study of material that past people have left behind
500
Name two things the American Indians did to adapt to the Spring season.
What is picked berries, hunted, fished
500
Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he found in the lands he explored "Indians"?
Because he thought he was in the Indies (Near China)
500
We have proof that American Indians lived all over Virginia. Give two pieces of evidence.
What is Artifacts such as arrowheads, pottery and other tools. Original fort of Jamestown
500
Where is the Great Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond located?
What is Coastal Plain(Tidewater) Region
500
Explain what an Archaeologist does..
They carefully dig and sift the soil using small shovels and brushes to recover material items left behind.