Environment
Artifacts
Cultural Regions/Geography
Cultural Characteristics / Way of Life
Vocabulary
100

Examples of Environment 

What is natural surroundings including air, water, land, plants, and animals?

100

Define Artifacts 

What is an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest?


100

Label the highlighted region 

*Refer to your paper: Geography question #1* 

What is the Southeast?

100

A common misconception of Native Americans today 

What is that they wear headdresses, they have red skin, and they all still live on reservations? 

100

Define Culture  

What is a way of living. Includes language, arts, music, foods, customs/holidays?

200

The most important animal to the Plains region 

What is buffalo/bison?

200

The purpose of a clay pot 

What is to make, store, and serve food?

200

Label the highlighted region 

*Refer to your paper: Geography question #2* 

What is the Great Plains? 

200

The purpose of the Southeastern region's raised Chickee hut  

What is to prevent water damage?

200

Define Cultural Region 

What is a geographic area full of people who share common cultural characteristics?

300

The environmental feature that best explains California Native tribe "Pomos"' clamshells for jewelry

What is the ocean? 

300

Natives living in this region made snow goggles to adapt to their climate 

What is Arctic/Subarctic?

300

Label the highlighted region 

*Refer to your paper: Geography question #3* 

What is Plateau? 

300

Wigwams in the Northeast were made from these materials 

What is trees and bark? 

300

Define Misconception

What is a view or opinion that is incorrect based on faulty thinking or understanding?

400

Other than building their homes, another way the Plains region used buffalo 

What is food, tools, and clothes 

400

Region that created and utilized the clay pot

What is Southwest?

400

This region had deserts

What is Southwest region?

400

A story, often passed down orally from generation to generation 

What is a folktale? 

400

Define Adaptation 

What is a change in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment?

500

The natural resources affected the cultures of Native Americans by 

What is it influenced the clothes they wore, what they ate, and what shelters they built? 

500

What is an example of an artifact from your life 

Answers will vary... must be something that holds importance and explain why 

500

The Natives in this area had to adapt to living in various rivers. Which region did the birch-bark canoe come from?

What is the Northeastern region?

500

The Southwest region had Pueblos for shelter. Explain what a Pueblo looked like and what it was made out of. 

What is a tall clay sculpture that looked most like housing today? 

500

Define Arctic Ice Fields 

What is an environment made up of huge sheets of ice?