Southwest Region
Northwest Regions
Vocabulary
Houses
People of the Plains
100
What is the climate of the Southwest region?
Hot and Dry
100
Name TWO things the Northwest Native Americans built with wood
Houses, canoes and totem poles
100
a weapon used for hunting
un arma usada para cazar
bow and arrow
arco y flecha
100
a house made out of ice
igloo
100
What are the plains?
Flat land with long grass
200
What is an adobe house made out of?
Clay
200
What resource did they have a lot of in the Northwest?
Wood
200
a weapon used to get fish
un arma utilizada para obtener peces
spear
lanza
200
a house made of buffalo skin and sticks
teepee
200
Did the People of the Plains kill Buffalo or Water Buffalo?
Buffalo
300
What kind of house did the Southwest Native Americans live in?
Adobe
300
What animal did they hunt in the Northwest?
Deer
300
A leader of a Native American tribe
Un líder de una tribu de nativos americanos
chief
jefe
300
a long house made of sticks and mats for a whole tribe
longhouse
300
True or False: Did they use every part of the buffalo?
What is ONE EXAMPLE.
True, they used the skins for Teepees.
400
How did the southwest Native Americans get their food?
Farmed
400
What is a totem pole?
A manmade pole made of wood used for tribes.
400
a piece of stone attached to a bow or spear
un trozo de piedra sujeto a un arco o lanza
arrowhead
punta de flecha
400
a house made out of clay
adobe
400
What does Nomadic mean?
Means to move from place to place to place.
500
Name one state that is part of the Southwest region?
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado
500
What was the summer climate in the Northwest?
What was the winter climate in the Northwest?
Hot summers and cold winters
500
Group of related families
Tribe
500
Earth Lodge
500
What is a Travois? How did they carry them?
They were attached to horses and they used them to carry supplies.
600
Name two tribes that we studied from the southwest.
Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Apache, Pueblo
600
Name a the group of people the Northwest?
Inuits
600
What does Hunter-Gathers means?
People that hunt and/or find food.
600
What is Parfleche? What was it used for?
It is Dried Buffalo hide and it was used for Bags and other things.
700
Who introduced horses to the southwestern tribes?
The Spanish
700
How did they make canoes?
They cut down trees and carved it by hand.
700
What does Mesas mean?
A hill with a flat top.