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How long has the Great Plains been housing people?
The Great Plains have housed humans for nearly 15,000 years.
What meat did they eat?
Bison/buffalo deer and elk.
What ype of cloth did they use in the great plains?
They used animal skin as cloth.
True or False-It was very easy to farm.
False
What are some materials they had on the farms?
Some materials are wheat, cotton, corn (maize), sorghum, and hay and raising cattle and sheep.
True or False:The Great Plains region is the largest supplier of wind power to the United States.
True.
True or False-They ate wild fruits?
True
What did they use to make art?
They used porcupine-quill embroidery, fringe, and, in later times, glass and ceramic beads.
What was the life style like?
Plains peoples lived in villages and, like their neighbors to the east, got their food from farming, hunting, and fishing.
What types of materials are found in the Great Plains?
Sand, gravel, limestone, and other construction materials are found throughout the Great Plains.
How much has the Great Plains shrunk in the last year?
The population of the Great Plains has shrunk by one-third in the last century.
True or False-They ate no Vegetables
False
What did women use to make undergarments?
Antelopes
What structure did they live in?
They lived in tepees.
Natural resources
What are four features of the Great Plains?
Grassland, prairie, mountains, hills, and valleys.
True or False-They ate grains.
True
What did men wear?
Men wore a shirt, leggings, and moccasins.
What were the conditions like?
The conditions were very harsh in the great plains.
What substantial energy resources did the Great Plains use?
They used coal, uranium, abundant oil and gas, and coal-bed methane.
How old are the Great Plains?
22 million years old
What animal did they use for hunting, fighting and carrying their goods when they moved?
What did women use to make clothes?
They used bison hides and the softer, finer skins of deer.
What did they use to make te-pees?
They used poles and animal skin.
What tools did they have?