Farmers
What do we call people who grow crops?
A) Hunters
B) Farmers
C) Nomads
D) Settlers
B) Farmers
What do we call people who move from place to place?
A) Farmers
B) Settlers
C) Nomads
D) Villagers
C) Nomads
What is the large area of flat land in the middle of North America called? (it stretches across 14 states and 3 Canadian provinces)
A) Mountains
B) Hills
C) Great Plains
D) Forests
C) Great Plains
What do you call a permanent home made of a wooden framework covered with thick bundles of grass?
A) a thatch house
B) an earth lodge
C) a tipi
D) a mansion
A) a thatch house
Match this definition with the correct vocabulary word: "rich soil that is able to produce plentiful crops"
A) sacred
B) tribe
C) climate
D) fertile
D) fertile
What is one crop that Plains Indians grew that they considered to be the most important?
A) Wheat
B) Rice
C) Corn or Maize
D) Barley
C) Corn or Maize
Why did Plains Indians often move around?
A) To find new homes
B) To follow the buffalo
C) To grow crops
D) For trade
B) To follow the buffalo
What type of climate does the Great Plains have?
A) Wet and humid with lots of rain
B) Dry and windy, with very little rain fall at times
C) Cold, always snowy
D) Tropical like a beach
B) Dry and windy, with very little rain fall at times
What do you call a permanent home made of heavy timber posts covered by willow branches and layers of sod (topsoil)?
A) a thatch house
B) an earth lodge
C) a tipi
D) a mansion
B) an earth lodge
Match this definition with the correct vocabulary word: "typical weather conditions of a place or region"
A) sacred
B) tribe
C) climate
D) fertile
C) climate
What did farmers use to make tools?
Animal bones (from bison, for example), antlers, and horns.
What is a home that nomadic hunters use that is easy to move?
Tipis made of bison hides
Name one animal that lived in the Great Plains.
Bison or Buffalo
When did farming people use tipis?
When they went on their yearly hunting trips away from their homes.
Match this definition with the correct vocabulary word: "moving from one place to another without a permanent, fixed home"
A) game
B) tribe
C) slaughter
D) nomadic
D) nomadic
Why were crops of corn, squash, and beans often planted together and called “the Three Sisters”?
Because they helped each other grow! Corn would act like poles for bean vines to grow on. Squash leaves would shade the soil and keep it moist.
How did nomads travel across the plains?
On horseback or by foot.
What natural resource was important for life on the Great Plains? (name at least 2)
Water, animals, wood, soil
Where did farming tribes typically settle (make villages)?
near large rivers or streams, which provided water for their farms
Match this definition with the correct vocabulary word: "skin of an animal"
A) game
B) tribe
C) slaughter
D) hide
D) hide
Farming tribes would trade their extra crops with other tribes. What would trade for? (name at least 2 things)
metal tools, cloth, and bison hides
How were tipi covers typically decorated?
With painted figures representing the family or showing the great deeds of the hunter or warrior who lived inside.
Describe the difference in climate between the eastern and the western plains.
The western plains get LESS rainfall (10-20 inches per year) while the eastern plains receive MORE rainfall (20-40 inches per year).
What was an advantage of establishing villages on bluffs (high cliffs)?
in order to spot enemies approaching from a distance
Match this definition with the correct vocabulary word: "wild animals hunted for food"
A) game
B) tribe
C) slaughter
D) nomadic
A) game