Key Vocabulary
The study of the Earth
What is geography
Used to build homes
Region with the most settlement groups (over 100 groups)
What is the California Region
A piece of land connecting Asia and North America.
What is Beringia
What is the name of the football team based in Washington, D.C.?
What is the Redskins
Movement from one part of something to another
What is migration
Large animal that was used for a variety of reasons in the Great Plains region
What is buffalo
Region known for having small animals, mountains, and nuclear families
What is the Great Basin
Theme of geography that refers to the ways in which humans interact with their environment in order to survive
What is Human Environment Interaction
Animal used by Native Americans to make the bristles of a hairbrush
What is a porcupine
A landform that rises up like a mountain, but has a flat top
What is a mesa
Used to tell the days, months, and years
What are turtles
Region where buffalo is the primary food source and Natives were known for living in teepees
What is the Great Plains
A large land-covered area
What is a continent
Ceremony used to celebrate the most valuable crop
Hint: NOT JUST THE CROP ITSELF!
What is The Green Corn ceremony
To change your habits or lifestyle so that you can fit in or survive in your environment
What is adapt
The door of a longhouse was made out of this
What is animal skin/ fur
Region known for its forest, rainfall and great lakes
What is the Northeast (Eastern Woodlands)
A time when all of the continents were all joined together
What is Pangea
Hairstyle whose name is based on a Native American tribe
Who are the Mohawk Tribe
Native American sleds used during traveling
What is a travois
Three uses of wood by the Native Americans
Building homes, methods of transportation (boats, sleds, snowshoes), weapons (bows and arrows)
Region where corn was the primary crop and homes were made from trees and clay
What is the Southeast region
Traditions, beliefs and ways of living that a group of people share
Team sport still played today with sticks that was started by Native Americans
What is Lacrosse