Food
Art and Clothing
Housing
Geography and Climate
Traditions
100

These three foods were popular with the people of the Southwest because of their ability to be grown in harsh climates.

What are the Three Sisters (corn, beans, and squash)?

100

Tall wooden polls that have faces and animals carved into them.

What are totem polls?

100

The permanent housing of the People of the Southwest.

What are Pueblos?

100

This region has a dry, or arid climate with extreme temperatures and many plateaus and canyons.

What is the Desert Southwest?
100

This region had medicine men called Shamans and believed in Skinwalkers.

What are the Southeastern Woodlands?
200

This region ate lots of fish, elk, and berries.

What is the Northwest region?

200

Wooden dolls that were believed to have a connection to the spirit realm.

What are kachina dolls?

200

The People of the Southwest used reddish brown clay to build their houses.

What is adobe?

200

This region has four seasons and a lot of natural resources.

What are the Northeastern Woodlands?

200

This region had many tribes that followed a matriarch (man moves in with the wife's family), and were lead by woman.

What are the Northeastern or Southeastern woodlands?

300

This region hunted animals like deer, turkey, and other small game. 

What are the Northeastern woodlands?

300

The People of the Northwest used this as a way to keep their clothes waterproof because of their wet climate. 

What is cedar bark?

300

The houses of the Northwest were long, and made out of long wooden boards.

What are Plank Houses?

300

This region has a mild climate and is home to the everglades and the mouth of the Mississippi River.

What is the Southeastern Woodlands?

300

A solution to the constant fighting between the people of the Northeastern Woodlands. 

What is the Iroquois Confederacy?

400

This region used crop rotation because of their long growing season.

What are the Southeastern woodlands?

400

Northeastern Woodland belts that were covered in pictures that told stories.

What are Wampum belts?

400

The people of the Northeastern woodlands had two kinds of housing. One permanent and one for moving around.

What are Longhouses and Wigwams?

400

People changing the environment to fit their needs.

What is modifying the environment?
400

The People of the Northwest had a special tradition that celebrated how much people gave away, and not how much people have.

What is a Potlatch Ceremony? 

500

People of the desert Southwest modified their environment to get water to their crops.

What is irrigation?

500

Shoes made out of deerskin used in the Northeastern Woodlands.

What are moccasins? 

500

These houses in the Southeastern Woodlands were made out of twigs, branches, dry grass and stuck together with clay or mud.

What is Wattle and Daub?

500

People changing the way they live to fit their environment.

What is adapting to the environment?
500
A circular room, dug into the ground that was used as a ceremonial gathering place for people of the Desert Southwest. 
What are Kivas?