Vocabulary 101
The study of the environment and the ways people use it...
What is geography?
half of a sphere...
What is hemisphere?
What did Native Americans cross while following their food source?
What types of shelter did Eastern Woodland Native Americans make?
What are log framed houses called longhouses?
Something that is man-made and studied by archeologists to learn more about the past...
What is an artifact?
The imaginary line that separates the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres...
What is the equator?
Imaginary lines that run horizontally and measure how far north or south you are from Equator...
What is latitude?
What did historians study to learn about American Indians that lived long ago?
What are artifcats?
Because of the climate, Southwest Native Americans found that building shelter out of this material was successful...
What is adobe brick?
A source from the event being studied....
What is a primary source?
The lines that measure the distance East and West of Prime Meridian...
What are longitude lines?
What Native American cultural region do we live in?
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
What type of clothing did most American Indians living on the Plains wear?
What are animal hides and fur?
In MAN vs. WILD what specific plant can be used for medicinal purposes (sunburn) especially in a similar climate as the Southwest Native Americans (very warm)?
What is the aloe plant?
Getting what you need (food, shelter, clothing) is ...
The imaginary lines that runs North to South and splits the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres...
2 parts :
Where did early Americans migrate from?
Where did early Americans migrate to across the land bridge?
migrated from Asia or Sibera
migrated to North and South America
200 pts/question
What was a staple food for the Southwest Native Americans? (hint: they also developed grinders for this type of food as a tool)
What is corn?
Give two examples how the Native Indians used natural resources to adapt to the environments?
(200 pts. resource)
-Answers may vary
-Used animal skin for clothing and food
-made shelter from surroundings (trees, snow)
-made tools from nature around them (stone, antlers, bows/arrows)
This continent is west of the Atlantic Ocean and north of the Gulf of Mexico?
What is North America?
The study of the past (people) and what has happened (events)...
What is history?
Which Native American group lived in what is present day state of Washington and had thick forests of fir, cedar, and spruce and rugged mountains...
What is the Northwest Coast?
What was the main food source for the Great Plains Native Americans besides farming...
What are buffalo?
How did American Indians view the environment?
Need at least 2 details for full points
They felt land could not be owned.
They strived to protect the land.
They did not waste anything.
___Had great respect for the land____
How a group of people eat, speak , dress, and practice religion is called....
What is culture?