vocabulary
California-Intermountain, Northwest & Eastern Woodland
Southwest, Plateau, and Plains
Wild Card
Artifacts
100
This is an object made and used by people
What is an artifacts?
100
This is a feature of the California-Intermountain environment that best explains the Pomos' use of clamshells for jewelry.
What is the ocean?
100
This is an apartment building made of stone and adobe.
What is a pueblo?
100
As they migrated, the first Americans went in search of animals such as caribou, mammoth, which were called this name.
What is big game?
100
A natural environment provides things to make artifacts, so a natural environment includes what type of things?
What are plants and animals and things found in nature?
200
People who move from place to place to follow food are called this.
What is nomads/nomadic?
200
The Indians of the Eastern Woodlands used small trees and bark to form this type of shelter.
What are wigwams?
200
These were told to explain how Earth and its people came to be.
What are origin stories?
200
As they migrated, the first Americans had to adapt by using things they found in their what?
What is environment?
200
Native Americans from this region made clay pots to store LIMITED water.
What is the Southwest?
300
These are the seven areas where Native Americans developed different ways of living.
What are cultural regions?
300
This is a natural resource of the Northwest coast that the Makahs used to make canoes and totem poles.
What are trees (cedar trees)?
300
According to the Hopi origin story, the people first lived here.
What is inside the Earth?
300
Most Native Americans settled in places that had rich and plentiful_________ ______________.
What is natural resources?
300
The Indians of the Plateau made a digging tool to dig out this from the camas lily.
What is the root?
400
This is everything that surrounds you.
What is an environment?
400
The Algonquins made these which were amazingly fast and light.
What are canoes?
400
The Indians of the Plateau got water from these.
What are rivers?
400
Name something Inuits made from their environment?
What are snow goggles out of bone, igloos, floats from sealskin, etc.?
400
The cedar bark fish trap was especially made to trap this type of fish.
What is salmon?
500
This is a change, modification, or adjustment in the way of life.
What is an adaptation?
500
The Iroquois and the Algonquin were the main tribes from this reagion.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
500
This animal was used for shelter, clothing, and shields, and was important to the Western Sioux who considered it sacred.
What is the buffalo?
500
Most scientists believe that the first Americans came to North America from this continent.
What is Asia?
500
The buffalo hide shield was made by the Native American tribes of this cultural region.
What is the Plains?