California Regions
What region lies next to the Pacific Ocean, is more than 800 miles long and has good soil for farming?
The Coast Region
Define what a resource is.
A resource is anything that meets peoples needs.
The Pomo lived in what region?
Coast Region
In your book can you figure out what the Washo ate in their region?
Deer and antelope
Who dressed in light clothing to stay cool in the Desert Region?
Mojave and Yuma
This region makes up most of the southeastern California. Summers are hot, dry, there is little water, and it has cactus's. The Mojave Desert is in this regions.
The Desert Region
What is a region.
A region is a large land area that has similar features.
What tribe lived in the Valley Region?
The Miwok
What did the Miwok eat to survive in their region?
Acorns and deer
These women of the Chumash tribe wore what?
skirts made from sea grass
This region is a flat long area between hills and mountains. It has two rivers, the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers flowing through it. Many kinds of fruits and vegetables are grown here.
The Valley Region
What is geography?
Geography is the surface features of a place.
What two tribes live in the Desert Region?
The Mojave and Yuma.
Using your book can you find what the Chumash ate in their region?
fish, birds, and sea animals
What tribe hunted deer, used their skins to make skirts, pants, and used their antlers for tools?
The Washo
This region is made up of many lakes, large forests, and holds two of the highest waterfalls in Yosemite Nations Park.
The Mountain Region
What does it mean to adapt?
To adapt means to change to fit new conditions.
Which group was nicknamed the Pit River Indians?
The Achumawi
What did the Yuma eat to survive in the Desert region?
seeds, fruit, fish, corn and beans
What did California Indians use to make clothing.
They used plants, and animals skins to make clothing.
Bonus Round! What is the name of the valley we live in?
The Central Valley
Bonus Round! How are climate and weather different.
They are different because climate is the weather an area usually has year after year and weather is the temperature and conditions of the air outside at a certain place and time.
California Indians were able to live in many kinds of environments. How did climate affect how they lived?
By living in warm homes during cold winters.
By making houses of branches and small bushes then covering them with soil or sand to stay cool in the hot sun.
You and your group must now identify where the Chumash, Yuma, Miwok, and the Modoc are located the white board map.
Chumash- Coast Region
Yuma- Desert Region
Miwok- Valley Region
Modoc- Mountain Region
What did California Indian groups do with with clothing and tools?
The California Indians traded with other California Indians for things that they wanted or needed.