The First Americans

Migration

100

The first American likely migrated from this continent:

Asia

200

The land bridge that no longer exists, joining Russia with North America:

Beringia

300

Asians moved to the North American Continent chasing these extinct mammals for food and clothing:

woolie mammoths

400

The migration of the first Americans moved in these two directions (on the compass):

South and East

500

All Native American peoples did this in order to survive:

Adapt to their environment.

Arctic People

100

People who settled the Arctic dwelled in the land occupied by these two modern-day regions:

Alaska and Canada.

200

The name of this type of climate zone with cold temperatures and no trees:

Tundra

300

In summer months, Arctic people followed herds of these mammals for food and animal skins:

Caribou

400

During the winter, Arctic people migrated to the coasts and lived off food from this plentiful source: 

Sea Food/the Ocean

500

These temporary shelters kept the Arctic people warm despite the freezing materials used to build them:

Iglus

California People

100

Settling in what is now California, different Native American groups may have been as many as...

100.

200

Native Americans in California managed to rinse out the bitter flavor to make a kind of flour out of these:

Acorns

300

The region Native Americans settled in what we now call "California" included this peninsula in Mexico:

Baja California

400

Native Americans not only settled at the coast, but in this mountain range as well:

Sierra Navada Mountains

500

Native American men of California often made tools from this deer product:

Antlers 

Southwest People

100

Name the 2 primary, present-day, American States that comprised the region known as the Southwest:

1) Arizona

2) New Mexico

(parts of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, and California)

200

An ancient Native American song describes the Southwest region as a "house made of" THIS:

Dawn

300

Lack of trees brought the Southwest peoples to build homes out of these earthen bricks:

Adobe

400

Unlike many Native American who relied on animal skins for clothing, Southwestern peoples grew and spun THIS, dying it with bright colors:

Cotton

500

The most important crop of all the Southwestern peoples:

Corn

Eastern Woodland

100

FILL-IN THE BLANKS

This huge region starts way up north in ____,

all the way south to ___. 

Canada

North Carolina

200

This huge region starts just east of this American river:

Mississippi River

300

It is the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodland who brought us these popular, soft, deer-skin shoes:

Moccasins

400

The Eastern Woodlands is fairly dominated by this Native American group, who built log canoes and log-frame houses. 

Iroquois

500

Although the Iroquois did not have waffles, they did enjoy this popular, modern-day, grocery store item:

Maple Syrup