Migration and Early Settlement
Most scientists agree the first people in North America migrated from this continent during the last ice age
Asia
Tales passed down through generations to explain how Earth and its people came to be
origin stories
Everything that surrounds a living thing, including air, water, land, plants, and climate.
environment
Winter houses built by the Inuit using blocks of ice and snow.
igloos
On the lesson's migration map, this ocean borders the western coast of North and South America
Pacific Ocean
The ancient land bridge connecting Asia and North America crossed over what is now this sea.
Bering Sea
An underground or covered room where Hopi tribe members gathered to tell stories and hold spiritual ceremonies
What is a kiva?
Naturally occurring items that people use to survive, such as soil, water, trees, berries, and minerals
Natural Resources
Items carved from bone or driftwood with narrow slits, designed to protect eyes from the glare of snow and ice.
snow goggles
What ocean boarders North America on the East?
Atlantic Ocean
Name one of the animals that Native Americans followed across the land bridge.
Caribou, Bison, or Mammoths
In the Hopi origin story, advisors created this animal to fly up through a hole and report on Earth's surface.
mockingbird
Because this dry environment receives very little rain, early inhabitants had to dig wells and ditches for crops.
The Desert
The Inuit filled these skins with air and attached them to harpoons to tire out diving sea mammals
sealskins
What country boarders the United States of America to the North?
Canada
In addition to traveling by foot some people migrated by also
Traveling by boats
This Southwestern Native American group living in present-day Arizona tells an origin story about climbing out of Earth's dark interior
the Hopis
This environment receives enough rain to support various grasses, but lacks enough water for most trees to survive.
grasslands
In summer, the Inuit constructed tents by stretching animal skins over driftwood and these large animal parts.
whale bones
What country boarders the United States to the South?
Mexico
The land bridge was formed during this geological period, which ended about 10,000 years ago.
the last ice age
Native Americans of the Great Plains, such as the Lakota, painted pictographs on these hides to record key historical events
Bison hides
The process of changing one's way of life, clothing, and shelter to fit a specific environment
Adaptation
In addition to eating animal meat, the Inuit burned this animal material to heat their homes and cook food.
animal fat
On a map, these horizontal lines measure distance north or south of the Equator, such as the 40°N and 60°N lines shown on the migration map
latitude (or parallels)