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Native Americans
Native American vocabulary and test review
Term | Definition |
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Pueblo | a type of shelter for Native Americans in the Southwest region |
wood | the natural resource most important to the people of the Northwest coast |
nomads | people who followed the buffalo |
North America | includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
adapt | in order to survive, Native Americans had to do this |
region | an area with similar features |
Plains | the area that covers most of the central United States |
Coastal Plains | the flat low land along the Atlantic Ocean |
economy | the way people use their resources to meet their needs |
buffalo | after water, the most important natural resource for the Plains Indians |
How did the region's climate and geography affect the Hopi people? | area is hot and dry so they developed ways to collect water, few trees so homes made of adobe |
What effect did the trade networks have on groups of Native Americans? | they traded with other groups far away to get the goods they needed that were not available in their region |
What did the Native Americans in the Arctic, Plains, and Northwest Coast have in common? | they depended on hunting and fishing |
How did the resources affect the economy of Native American groups? | each group had different resources that impacted their economy such as agriculture, hunting, fishing, etc. |
Hopi storage containers were made of this. | Clay |
Inuit homes were made of this. | Hard packed snow and ice |
What was a food source for the Kwakiutl? | salmon/fish |
What did the Seminole eat? | fish, turtles, deer and corn |
What region did the Kwakiutl live in? | The Pacific Northwest |
What region did the Inuit live in? | The Arctic (Inuit live in ICE) |
What region did the Seminole live? | The Southeast (Florida) |
What region did the Nez Perce live? | The Great Basin |
What region did the Hopi live in? | The Southwest (Hopi live where its HOT) |
What type of home did the Seminole live in? | Chickees - permanent |
What type of home did the Inuit live in? | Igloos - temporary |
What type of home did the Kwakiutl live in? | cedar plank homes - permanent |
What type of home did the Pawnee live in? | permanent - long houses temporary - teepees |