Unit Vocab
What is the definition of Adapt?
What is change to match to your environment
What is culture?
What is food, clothing, traditions, music, etc.
What is the geographic context of the Southwest Native Americans?
What is deserts and steppes.
What type of shelter did the Haudenosaunee build?
What is a longhouse
What region is the Haudenosaunee found in?
What is the Northeast Woodlands
What is a Glacier during the period of the Ice Age?
What is compressed snow that freezes over time and melts very slowly. Ocean levels dropped during the Ice Age.
What is an artifact?
What is an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest and study that is preserved for today.
What type of shelter could be easily moved from place to place used in the Great Plains
What is a Tipi
What are the three-sisters?
What is corn, beans, and squash
What is a primary source?
What is a source that is immediate, a first-hand account of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
ex: journal, photograph
Who are people who do not stay in one place for a long time and are following the herds?
What are nomads
What are natural resources?
What is materials found in nature (water, vegetation, animals, minerals)
What is Adobe used for in the Southwest?
What are mud and clay bricks for their pueblo homes.
What is a group of Native Americans called?
What is a tribe or nation
What is a secondary source?
What is any source about an event, period, or issue in history that was produced after that event, period or issue has passed. ex: textbook, article
What two continents were connected by the Bering Straight Land Bridge?
DAILY DOUBLE
Asia and North America
Describe what an environment is
Physical surroundings like plants, land, water, etc.
What animal did the Great Plains Indians depend on to survive?
Buffalo
Who does the child in the Haudenosaunee clan system follow?
What is the mothers clan?
Describe or draw a compass rose
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What does it mean to "Migrate"?
What is to move from one place and establish a home in a new place
What is a turning point?
What is a significant event or idea that makes a major change in history have a noticeable shift.
What region creates totems poles and plank houses?
What is the Pacific Northwest Region
What is a wampum?
What is white and purple beads made out of shells to be used during ceremonies, treaties, and to trade with Europeans
Who is a famous historical figure from Rochester, NY or the surrounding area?
Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Harriett Tubman, George Eastman, Joseph Smith...