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Clothes
Tools
CHALLENGE
100
Native Americans of the Great Plains relied on this animal for food (and almost everything else).
What is buffalo?
100
This NA CR built thick-walled adobe homes to protect them from the heat and cold of their region.
What is the Southwest?
100
NA of this region used cedar bark capes for their waterproofing properties.
What is the Northwest Coast?
100
Because this region focused on farming, they had hoes and other farm tools.
What is Southeast?
100
This word means to move from one place to another and establish a home in the new place.
What is migrate?
200
This is where Native Americans of the Northwest coast got most of their food.
What are rivers and the sea?
200
This region built tipis out of buffalo hide.
What is the Great Plains?
200
This material helped NA of the Southwest stay cool in their desert environment.
What is cotton?
200
Because of the limited food of the Great Basin, the NA here developed this tool to get seeds from trees and bushes.
What is a seed beater?
200
This is made up of the physical surroundings of a place including landforms, water, plants, animals, and climate.
What is environment?
300
This is why NA of the Great Basin had to follow the sources of their food every season.
What is they had limited food and water?
300
This is why Native Americans of the Northwest Coast and Eastern Woodlands were able to build long houses out of wood for their shelter.
What is they had environments with lots of trees?
300
This is why the deerskin worn by NA in the Eastern Woodlands and the deerskin worn by the NA in the Southeast looked different.
What is they needed different amounts of warmth because of different climates?
300
Because this region had the most lakes, NA here used canoes for transportation.
What is Eastern Woodlands?
300
These are USEFUL materials found in nature.
What are Natural Resources?
400
This NA CR created tools to remove the bitter taste from the acorns they ate.
What is California?
400
This is how underground pit houses helped the NA of the Plateau adapt to their environment.
What is it helped protect them from extremely cold winter temperatures and hot summer temperatures?
400
This is an inference you could make if the NA of a region wore short, grass or bark skirts. This is the region you would make this inference for!
What is: -It had a warm climate / There were limited animals for clothing? -California?
400
This is why NA of the Great Plains used EVERY part of the buffalo for tools.
What is buffalo were a plentiful natural resource there?
400
This is how you could determine the cultural region a Native American belongs to.
What is look at their shelter, clothes, and tools to make inferences about where they were located?
500
This is why NA of the Southeast were able to farm most of their food.
What is they had good climate and land for growing crops?
500
This is why NA of the Great Plains would not build wooden houses.
What is their environment had limited trees?
500
This is why NA of the Great Basin would wear thick robes made from hundreds of rabbits instead of another animal hide.
What is because the region had a desert climate, there were not many large game / animals there?
500
This region used salmon as a primary food, so they built platforms to overlook the river and nets for catching salmon.
What is the Plateau?
500
Pick any cultural region and explain two separate ways NA in this region adapted to their environment to survive.
ANSWERS MAY VARY!