Vocabulary
True or False
Name the Region
Chapter 2
Artifacts
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Paths that Native Americans took to their new homes in North and South America.
What is migration routes?
Changing ideas and ways of living to fit a new situation, such as a new environment.
What is adapt?
The seven areas where Native Americans developed different ways of life.
What is cultural regions?
Places where Native Americans settled that had water, land, animals, plants, and other natural resources.
What is environments?
Word used to describe people who move from place to place during different seasons to find available food.
What is nomadic?
Native American groups all settled in the same environment.
What is false?
Scientists tell us that the first Native Americans migrated to the Americas from another part of the world.
What is true?
Native Americans used the natural resources around them to adapt to the environment.
What is true?
Few Native American groups told origin stories.
What is false?
In the Hopi origin story, humans were created to keep birds company.
What is true?
The Seminole lived in this region and build chickees and cypress canoes and wore deerskin leggings. This region is located along the Atlantic coast, along the Gulf of Mexico, all the way to East Texas.
What is the Southeast region?
The Yakima lived in this region and built underground winter houses The Yakima lived in this region and built underground winter houses. This region had hot summers and freezing winters. Camas root was an important food source for people who lived in this area.
What is the Plateau region?
The Sioux lived in this region The Sioux lived in this region. There were few trees in this region, but large grasslands were home to animals like deer, antelope, and buffalo.
What is the Great Plains region?
The Hopi lived in this region The Hopi lived in this region. They built adobe pueblo apartments and worn cotton dresses to stay cool in the hot summers. This region received little rain.
What is the Southwest region?
The Algonquian lived in this region The Algonquian lived in this region. They built birch bark wigwams and wore turkey feather capes. This region extended from the Atlantic coast through the Ohio Valley to the Mississippi River.
What is the Eastern Woodlands region?
Most scientists believe Native Americans migrated to the Americas by this.
What is a land bridge?
The two continents that were connected by the land bridge.
What are Asia and North America?
Three natural resources Native Americans used.
What are animals, plants (vegetation), minerals, and/or water?
Three items the Inuit made to help them adapt to their environment.
What are snow goggles made from bone, seal-skin float, and igloos?
The four environments Native Americans chose to settle in.
What are grasslands, deserts, mountains, and Arctic ice fields?
Native Americans in the Southwest region made this to store the little water they had.
What is clay pots for storing water?
Native Americans in the Northwest region made these to stay dry.
What is a waterproof cedar-bark cape?
This was the type of house built by Native Americans in the Southeast region. It was built on a platform and without walls.
What is a chickee?
This artifact was built by Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands This artifact was built by Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands. It was built to get through the many streams and rivers in the area. It was light enough to be carried by one person.
What is a birch-bark canoe?
This artifact was made by the Native Americans in the California Intermountain region. It was made of grass and decorated with shells, beads, and feathers.
What is a grass basket made with shells, beads, and feathers?