Welcome to NSMS 7 th Grade Social Studies Mr. Gordon

Global Heritage of American people Final Jeopardy Social Scientists Cultural Regions First Migrations Iroquois Anything goes

Cultural Regions 100 This region’s people were nomadic and relied on the buffalo for all things.

Cultural Regions 100 What is the Great Plains?

Cultural Regions 200 This region’s resources included wood, bark, deer, lakes and streams. This area’s climate has hot summers and cold winters

Cultural Regions 200 What is the Eastern woodlands?

Cultural Regions 300 This area’s resources included adobe brick and cotton. This area’s climate was considered hot and dry most of the year.

Cultural Regions 300 What is the southwest?

Cultural Regions 400 This region is desert and dry, has very little rain and its resources include jack rabbits, snakes and lizards.

Cultural Regions 400 What is the Great basin?

Cultural Regions 500 This area has timber, abundant sea life and has acorns that is northern neighbors don’t have

Cultural Regions 500 What was the California region?

First Migrations 100 What and where is Berengia?

First Migrations 100 What is a land bridge? Where is Asia (Russia) and Alaska?

First Migrations 200 This group of ice age people may have crossed Berengia

First Migrations 200 Who were the Clovis people?

First Migrations 300 This group may have crossed the Atlantic ocean hunting seals

First Migrations 300 Who were the Solutreans?

First Migrations 400 The Solutreans were known as an innovative people. What was one of their inventions or modications that helped them survive

First Migrations 400 What was: A sharper/ thinner spear head? A boat made of seal and animal skins used also as a shelter? Warming ice to use as drinking water? Other possibilities as well

First Migrations 500 Several alternate theories arose concluding that early man may have used boats to sail down the pacific coast to South America. Why is it difficult to prove those theories?

First Migrations 500 What was the rising of sea level leaving most of these sites underwater?

Social Scientists 100 This group of social scientists would study cave paintings, baskets, and spear heads.

Social Scientists 100 Who are archaeologists?

Social Scientists 200 They study written records of the past

Social Scientists 200 Who are historians?

Social Scientists 300 They would study how a primitive group of people organized themselves into clans and tribes. They would also be interested in who was the leader and why

Social Scientists 300 Who are political scientists?

Social Scientists 400 They would study the social relationships between different groups of people

Social Scientists 400 Who are sociologists?

Social Scientists 500 They study culture

Social Scientists 500 Who are anthropologists?

Iroquois 100 The creator of the world according to the Iroquois

Iroquois 100 Who was Sky Woman?

Iroquois 200 Longhouses usually contained several family members including aunts, uncles and grandparents. This type of family structure is called?

Iroquois 200 What is an extended family?

Iroquois 300 What was one way the Iroquois adapted to cold and snowy winter months?

Iroquois 300 What are snowshoes? What are deer-skin clothes? What are longhouses with several fires?

Iroquois 400 What were the 6 main religious festivals centered around?

Iroquois 400 What is food?

Iroquois 500 What was one of the purposes of the Iroquois confederacy?

Iroquois 500 What are peaceful relations among the tribes within it? What is trading for resources? What is uniting to fight a common enemy?

Anything goes 100 What does matrilineal mean?

Anything goes 100 What is a lineage traced through the mother?

Anything goes 200 What is slash and burn agriculture?

Anything goes 200 What is burning down forested areas to give new areas time to regenerate and grow?

Anything goes 300 What are 3 ways the Iroquois adapted to life in the Eastern woodlands?

Anything goes 300 Answers vary

Anything goes 400 What is the Great Law of Peace?

Anything goes 400 What is a constitution written by the Iroquois containing their laws?

Anything goes 500 What evidence do we have that Native Americans groups were civilized? (use your group as an example)

Anything goes 500 Answers will vary May contain: government, religion, tools, organization, buildings/ houses etc..

Final Jeopardy Who were the 6 tribes in the Iroquois confederacy?

Final Jeopardy Who are the Mohawks, Seneca, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Cayuga?