Prehistoric
_______ _________ were the first people to settle in North America.
Native Americans
What is the very large mammal the Native Americans hunted?
woolly mammoth
The Southwest region was arid. What does arid mean?
very dry
What dolls did Native Americans say contained spirits?
kachina dolls
Iroquois of the Northeast Woodlands lived in homes with up to 20 families. These homes were called....
longhouses
What continent did the Native Americans migrate from?
What mammal existed at the same time as the woolly mammoth and STILL exists today?
bison
Native Americans had to learn how to divert water to irrigate their crops. What does divert mean?
reroute or change direction
the warm and fertile soil home of the Cherokee; there is year-round sunshine
Southeast
Ancestral Pueblo of the Southwestbuilt homes made from adobe. Adobe are sun-dried bricks made of...
clay
Most Native Americans are migratory and travel to different areas to hunt and grow crops. What does the word migratory mean?
moving from place to place to live
Which method of obtaining food allowed tribes to settle and live in one place and increase their populations?
farming
Wampums were intricately designed to represent a story. Intricately means...
detailed
the usually hot and dry home of the Ancestral Pueblo, Hopi, and Zuni; they lived here in cliff dwellings
Southwest
Iroquois of the Northeast Woodlands could also live in a hut made by covering a usually rounded framework of wooden poles with bark or animals hides. These homes were called...
wigwams
What body of water covers Beringia?
The Bering Straight
What did ALL Native Americans learn they had to live close to?
Water
The dry desert can be inhospitable to some plants. What does inhospitable mean?
bad
the cold and harsh home of the Thule and Inuit; they lived in igloos and hunted bowhead whales
Arctic / Subarctic
The Intuit and Thule tribes migrated to the east when the bowhead whale disappeared. The lived in temporary homes made of ice. These homes were called...
igloos
What was the name of the area the Native Americans passed through to get to North America?
the shape of land
terrain
What do we call the culture of the Native Americans who often settled along a river and built mounds?
Mississipian
When the dry land of the Southwest became unusable, Native Americans moved to the greener, raised plateaus and _____ of the desert.
mesas
The Southeastern Native tribes like the Cherokee were the first to build permanent small tribal ______.
villages (pueblos)