This word is used to describe people who move from one place to another as the seasons change or to follow a food source.
What is nomadic?
100
There were the first people to live on the North American continent even before European explorers "discovered" it.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
This animal was considered to be sacred to the tribes of the Great Plains. They used it for clothing, shelter, tools and food.
What is the bison or buffalo?
100
This is an apartment style building made of clay and stone built by tribes of the Southwest cultural region.
What is a pueblo?
100
This cultural region had a dry climate with very little rain. Natural resources were scarce.
What is the Southwest?
200
This is something made by humans that helps archaeologists learn about the past.
What is an artifact?
200
The first Americans used this to migrate to North America.
What is a land bridge?
200
This cultural region lived in an environment with mild winters and hot, humid summers. There was plenty of rain. They lived in raised shelters called chickees.
What is the Southeast?
200
People of the Northeast region built these outside their homes as a symbol of their family or clan. It told the history of the family or clan.
What is a totem pole?
200
This cultural region's environment has thick forests, streams, and rivers. Birch bark is plentiful and deer and turkey inhabit the land.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
300
This word is used to describe a way of living for a group of people. This includes their religion, language, and traditions.
What is culture?
300
This is the continent the first Americans came from when migrating to North America.
What is Asia?
300
Native Americans in the Great Plains region used these for shelter because they were easy to move from one place to another.
What is a teepee?
300
Turkey feather capes were worn by the people in this cultural region to keep them warm during colder weather.
What is the Eastern Woodlands?
300
This cultural region has flat land with very little trees and plants. Buffalo make their home in this region.
What is the Great Plains?
400
This word means to change to fit the environment. For example, you ______ to the winter by wearing a jacket and warmer clothes.
What is adapt?
400
As they migrated, early Native Americans had to do this to survive in their environment. Hint: the answer is a word that means "change to fit your environment"
What is adapt?
400
This region's tribes place totem poles in front of their homes. Totem poles showed the family's history.
What is Northeast coast?
400
This cultural region in known for its clay bowls that were always black on white and had geometric shapes.
What is the Southwest?
400
This cultural region is known for its swamps and hot, humid climate.
What is the Southeast?
500
This was a natural resource tribes of the Northwest Coast used to make totem poles, shelters, and clothing.
What is cedar wood?
500
Give two words to correctly describe the environment on the Great Plains.
What is few trees and plants, grassy, and little rain?
500
Tribes in this cultural region used flat bottomed canoes to travel through shallow streams.
What is the Southeast region?
500
Wigwams, the shelter of the Eastern Woodland tribes, were made of this material.
What is birch bark?
500
This cultural region has dense forests, heavy rainfall and is located near the coast. Cedar bark is a natural resource used by the tribes in this region.