Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Asia & America
Important Native American Facts
Native American Part 2
Smoking the Peace Pipe
100
A large, rounded pile is called:
a) rock
b) mound
c) skittle
d) mountain
b) mound
100
What does Confederacy mean?
a) a chief
b) a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans
c) a loosely organized group of states or tribes
d) a soft, colorful light that appears in the sky in northern lands
c) a loosely organized group of states or tribes
100
What was the name of the land bridge that connected Asia and North America?
a) Northern Lights
b) Pueblo
c) Beringia
d) Apache
c) Beringia
100
What is the name of a dome-shaped shelter made from snow blocks?
a) wigwam
b) Mound Builders
c) Inuit
d) Igloo
d) Igloo
100
Why did the Mound Builders stay in one place (instead of moving around like other groups of Native American people)?
a) Because they lived on an island
b) Because they were farmers
c) Because they lived in cliffs
d) Because they lived in Beringia
b) Because they were farmers
100
What type of homes did the Haudenosaunee live in?
a) House boats
b) Longhouses
c) Short-houses
d) Mansions
b) Longhouses
200
Adobe is:
a) a large, prehistoric elephant-like animal covered with hair
b) a large, rounded pile
c) a type of brick made from sun dried clay
d) a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans
c) a type of brick made from sun-dried clay
200
A ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans is called a:
a) Sachem
b) Spear
c) Peace Pipe
d) Prune Pipe
c) Peace Pipe
200
What kind of people lived in Beringia?
a) Seamstresses
b) Hunter-Gatherers
c) Avengers
d) Apache
b) Hunter Gatherers
200
What do you call a special Inuit canoe made from animal hide?
a) Adobe
b) Mound
c) Kayak
d) Gazpacho
c) Kayak
200
Why did the population of Native Americans rapidly decrease?
a) Because they moved away
b) Because Europeans brought diseases (germs)
c) Because Europeans brought pets
d) Because Europeans asked them to leave
b) Because Europeans brought diseases/germs
200
What group of people were part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
a) the Mohawk, Oneida, and Seneca people
b) the Navajo and Apache people
c) the Seminole people
d) the Beringia people
a) Mohawk, Oneida, and Seneca people
300
What were large, prehistoric elephant-like animals covered with hair, called?
a) Sachem
b) Mammoth
c) Spear
d) Seminoles
b) Mammoths
300
__________ was a chief in a Northeastern Native American nation.
a) Wigwam
b) Sachem
c) Spear
d) Adobe
b) Sachem
300
The earliest Americans came from:
a) Asia
b) Antarctica
c) Europe
d) Africa
a) Asia
300
What people lived in places like the image below?
a) Inuit
b) Haudenosaunee
c) Ancestral Pueblo
d) Europeans
c) The Ancestral Pueblo
300
Native Americans (Pueblo people) who lived in villages on the high mesas were called:
a) Sequoyah
b) Hopi
c) Beringia
d) Haudenosaunee
b) the Hopi
300
What does the saying, "smoking the peace pipe" mean?
a) Smoking tobacco and sleeping
b) sitting down and talking calmly
c) running a marathon
d) uniting the states of America
b) sitting down and talking calmly
400
A long, thin weapon made from a pointed stick, that was made with a stone or metal tip, is called:
a) spear
b) mound
c) Sachem
d) Inuit
a) spear
400
A domed dwelling made of poles tied together with bark covering the sides, built by the Eastern Woodlands people, is called:
a) Sachem
b) Mound
c) Adobe
d) Wigwam
d) Wigwam
400
How long ago did the people of Americas that raised corn, live?
a) 5,000 years ago
b) 7,000 years ago
c) 10,000 years ago
d) 17,000 years ago
b) 7,000 years ago
400
People who built homes into cliffs, like the picture below, were called cliff dwellers. Who lived as cliff dwellers?
a) Europeans
b) Ancestral Pueblo
c) Seminoles
d) Haudenosaunee
b) Ancestral Pueblo were cliff dwellers.
400
Where did the Navajo and the Apache migrate from?
a) Northern California
b) Northern Canada
c) Florida
d) Chicago
b) Northern Canada
400
How many clans did the Cherokee people have?
a) 2
b) 5
c) 7
d) 13
c) 7
The clans were: Bird, Paint, Deer, Wolf, Blue, Long Hair, and Wild Potato
500
Land Bridge is:
a) a loosely organized group of states or tribes
b) a small strip of land that connects two large land masses
c) a domed dwelling made of poles tied together with bark covering the sides, built by the Eastern Woodlands people
b) a small strip of land that connects two large land masses
500
What are soft, colored lights caused by the reflection of sunlight that appear in the sky in northern lands, called?
a) Beringia
b) Pueblo
c) Northern Lights
d) Winter Lights
c) Northern Lights
500
Where did the people of Americas that raised corn, live?
a) Alaska
b) Mexico
c) Honduras
d) Colombia
b) Mexico
500
What is the name of the current area where the Ancestral Pueblo used to live?
a) Four Corners
b) Anchorage
c) Mexico
d) Europe
a) Four Corners (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
500
Where do the Seminole Nation live?
a) Utah
b) Arizona
c) Montana
d) Florida
d) Florida
500
How many sides were there to a Cherokee council?
a) 3
b) 5
c) 7
d) 9
c) 7
600
Who were the Creek's ancestors?
a) Navajo
b) Apache
c) Mound Builders
d) Mohawk
c) Mound Builders
600
Who created the Cherokee syllabary (a written form of Cherokee language)?
a) Apache
b) Navajo
c) Sequoyah
d) Mohawk
c) Sequoyah
600
What is the "three sisters" that originated from the Haudenosaunee people?
a) three siblings that became queens to the Haudenosaunee people
b) three crops that became important to the Haudenosaunee people
c) three stones that became important to the Haudenosaunee people
d). three homes of the kings of Haudenosaunee people
b) three crops that became important to the Haudenosaunee people (corn, beans, squash)