A people's way of life including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing
What is culture?
Bison was the main food source in this cultural region
What is Great Plains?
American Indians of this region lived in igloos
What is the Arctic?
This term refers to the original inhabitants of North America before European contact
What are Native Americans (American Indians)?
Historians learn about the lives of American Indians from a specific type of evidence left behind from the past
What are artifacts?
To change in order to survive conditions faced
What is adapt?
American Indians in this region lived in adobe houses on top of flat mesas
What is Southwest?
An important resource of American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands
What are forests (trees), lakes, or rivers?
This "land bridge" connected Asia and North America
What is Beringia?
These types of temporary shelter, made from poles and bison hide, were commonly used by Plains tribes
What are tipis?
To move from one place and establish a home in a new place
What is migrate?
American Indians of this region lived in wooden longhouses in the forest.
What is Eastern Woodlands?
What is Southeast?
Many tribes migrated in search of these essential resources for survival (3)
What are food, water, and shelter?
This term is used to describe people who move from place to move and have no permanent home
What is nomad/nomadic?
Useful material found in nature including water, vegetation, animals, and minerals
What is natural resource?
Technology used by mesa people to grow corn in the desert.
What are irrigation ditches?
Native Americans of this region lived in underground pit houses beside major rivers
What is Plateau?
This factor best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America
What is the (different) environment?
This resource was the primary food source for many Native American tribes in the Northwest Coast
What are fish, particularly salmon?
A vast, treeless plain made mostly of frozen soil
What is tundra?
An important water resource for Native Americans of the Northwest Coast
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is Wattle and Daub?
Term used to describe a period when glaciers covered much of North America, influencing migration routes
What is the Ice Age?
This sandy clay can be dried into bricks and used for building
What is adobe?