The people of this region built their homes out of buffalo hide and long poles.
What is the Great Plains?
100
Buffalo was one of the greatest natural resources in this region. The people of this region used buffalo to fulfill many of their needs.
What is the Great Plains?
100
A person or group of people who move from place to place in search of food.
What is nomad?
100
This physical characteristic is characterized by little to no rain, and therefore, a scarcity of water.
What is the desert?
100
An artifact or piece of information created by someone who experienced an event or period of time.
Examples: letters, journals, diaries, artwork, etc.
What is a primary source?
200
The Native Americans of this region built their homes of cedar planks and often placed totem poles around.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
200
This physical feature offered flat land and fertile soil to Native Americans who wished to farm for food.
What is the plains?
200
The people of this region used the blubber of whales for oil and the bones to make harpoons for fishing.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
200
This physical characteristic can offer many benefits such as food and easy transportation, but can also restrict settlement due to flooding.
What is a lake or river?
200
The process in which a person or group of people adjust to their environment or use their environment to survive.
What is adapt? (accept: adaptations)
300
In this region, there were no trees, so they built their homes from adobe (a type of clay).
What is the Southwest?
300
This natural resource was scarce in the Southwest region, so the people of the region had to make very careful decisions about how to use it.
What is water?
300
This type of adaptation allowed the people of the Southwest to deal with their scarcity of water.
What is irrigation?
300
This physical feature can cause some challenges for settlers, but offers a barrier that protects them from potential danger.
What is the mountains?
300
A very small amount of something
Not enough of a needed item or resource
What is scarcity?
400
The people of this region built longhouses made of wood because trees were an abundant natural resource.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
400
Because of the heavy forests in their area, the people of this region were able to use wood to build their longhouses, make tools and weapons and hollow out canoes for fishing.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
400
The people of this region often used seashells found along the coast of the Pacific Ocean to make tools and weapons.
What is the California Intermountain region?
400
This physical feature is a large, elevated flat area
What is a plateau?
400
The value of what has to be given up if someone makes another choice.
Example: You choose to study, so you give up watching your favorite TV show that night.
What is opportunity cost?
500
People of this region built their homes, chickees, on stilts so the wetlands of the area would not damage their homes.
What is the Southeast?
500
A stone that Native Americans carved into a point to use on their tools and weapons.
What is an arrowhead?
500
The people of the Southwest region dug these to help direct water from a water source to their villages.
What is an irrigation canal?
500
An area where water meets land.
What is a coast?
500
Objects left behind by humans that help us understand their lives