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Esposito Native Amer
Native American Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural Resources | used from environments for food, clothing, and shelter |
| Culture | a people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings, and clothing |
| Cultural Regions | groups in the same environments adapted similar life styles and languages; an area in which a group of people share similar culture and language |
| Native Americans have these beliefs in common: | Nature has a spirit, no one can own private property, use only what is needed |
| Siberia | present-day Alaska |
| Beringia | land bridge the first Americans crossed over while following animal migrations |
| Migrants | first Americans |
| Migrate | to move from one place and establish a home in a new place; a migration is a move of a large number of people; the people who move are migrants; animals tend to migrate with the seasons |
| Environment | all of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants, |
| Mesas | flat areas of land used for planting corn, beans, squash, and other vegetation |
| Pueblo | small village; usually about 1,000 people |
| Seed beaters | flat baskets used to knock seeds loose from the plants |
| Iglus, Igloos | temporary shelter made of blocks of snow |
| Southwest | mesas, cotton clothes, apartment-like houses, irrigation, clay ovens, peppers |
| Great Plains | grasslands, buffalo hunters, V shaped traps, glue, tipis, geather arrows, horses |
| Southeast | swamps, mounds, towns, blow guns, tree woven huts, deer skin skirts, jewelry |
| Eastern Woodlands | Algonguain, Iroquois, canoes, moccasins, maple syrup, long houses |
| Northwest Coast | hunted deer, harpooned seals, carved masks, bark capes, bark roof shingles |
| California | made acorn meal, grass aprons, antler tools, redwood bark and reed cone huts |
| Great Basin | desert nomads, rabbit robes, duck decoys, seed beaters, willow looms |
| Plateau | flat grasslands, underground huts, woven hats, deer skin dresses and leggings |
| Native Americans believed all things in nature had ... | souls |
| Siberia | where the first Americans migrated from to get to NOrth and South America |