Vocabulary
This word is used to describe people who move from one place to another as the seasons change or to follow a food source.
What is nomadic?
These were the first people to live on the North American continent even before European explorers "discovered" it.
Who are the Native Americans?
This animal was considered to be sacred to the tribes of the Great Plains. They used it for clothing, shelter, tools and food.
What is the bison or buffalo?
This is an apartment style building made of clay and stone built by tribes of the Southwest cultural region.
What is a pueblo?
This cultural region had a dry climate with very little rain. Natural resources were scarce.
What is the Southwest?
This is something made my humans that helps archaeologists learn about the past.
What is an artifact?
The first Americans used this to migrate to North America.
What is a land bridge?
This cultural region lived in an environment with mild winters and hot, humid summers. There was plenty of rain. This area was south of the Eastern Woodlands on our map.
What is the Southeast?
People of the Northeast region built these outside their homes as a symbol of their family or clan. It told the history of the family or clan.
What is a totem pole?
This cultural region's environment has thick forests, streams, and rivers. Birch bark is plentiful and deer and turkey inhabit the land.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
This word is used to describe a way of living for a group of people. This includes their religion, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
This is the continent the first Americans came from when migrating to North America.
What is Asia?
Native Americans in the Great Plains region used these for shelter because they were easy to move from one place to another.
What is a teepee?
These crops grown by the Eastern Woodland and Southwest Native Americans were known as the "3 sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This cultural region has flat land with very little trees and plants. Buffalo make their home in this region.
What is the Great Plains?
This word means to change to fit the environment. For example, you ______ to the winter by wearing a jacket and warmer clothes.
What is adapt?
This is a supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been existing before the continents broke apart.
What is Pangaea?
This region's tribes place totem poles in front of their homes. Totem poles showed the family's history.
What is Northwest coast?
This cultural region in known for its clay bowls and adobe bricks.
What is the Southwest?
This cultural region is known for its cold temperatures and ice-covered land.
What is the Arctic?
This is a carrier made by using 2 poles tied together at one end and then fastened to a harness on a dog.
What is a travois?
This is a newer theory that explains how the Native Americans migrated to North America by boat.
What is the Coastal Theory?
This was a natural resource tribes of the Northwest Coast used to make totem poles, shelters, and clothing.
What is cedar wood?
These two types of homes were used by the Eastern Woodland Indians.
What are wigwams and longhouses?
This cultural region has dense forests, heavy rainfall and is located near the coast. Cedar bark is a natural resource used by the tribes in this region.
What is the Northeast Coast?