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The First Americans
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| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| What is the main food source of the Great Basin? | Duke eggs, grasshoppers, snakes, ripe berries, cattail plants, and jack rabbits. | section 1.7 |
| What are the type of homes in the Great Basin? | Temporary shelters of willow poles shaped into a cone and covered with brush or reeds | section 1.7 |
| What are the type of materials for craft and clothing? | made robes out of rabbit hide. They wove baskets to knock seeds from plants. | section 1.7 |
| What are some of the tools they used? | used floating duck decoys, used nets, sharp stick to dig up roots. | section 1.7 |
| What is the geographic features of the Plateau? | Mountain area have dense forest, the flatter central part is drier and covered with grass and sage. Bounded by casscade range to the west the Rodore's to the east and Fraser river. | section 1.8 |
| What is the main food source? | The main food source is salmon and camas ( starchy root related to lilies ) | section 1.8 |
| What were the type of homes that were built in the Plateau? | Built there village along a major river. In the summer they would build there homes partly underground | section 1.8 |
| What were the types of materials for crafts and clothing they would have? | Clothing from animal hides and decorated with seeds and shells; woven basket and hats. | section 1.8 |
| What were some of the tools they would use? | Used willow digging sticks for eating and grinding flour. also spears and fish nets. | section 1.8 |
| What is the geographic features of the Eastern Woodlands? | Eastern Woodlands reaches from Mississippi eastward to the Atlantic Ocean and from Canada to North Carolina | section 1.11 |
| What is the main food source in the Eastern Woodlands? | Prowle to track deer bears, beavers, birds, fish, green nuts and berries. | section 1.11 |
| What were the type of homes they would build in the Eastern Woodlands? | log frames curved in own bank 20ft wide 100ft long | section 1.11 |
| what are the type of material, crafts and clothing they had? | tanned deer skin to make skirts capes and moccasins (soft shoes) | section 1.11 |
| What were some tools that they used in the Eastern Woodlands? | Scraped corn kernals with bone tools | section 1.11 |
| What is the geographic features of the Southeast? | streaches from the southern part of Ohio valley to the Gulf of Mexico and from texas to the Atlantic Ocean. | section 1.12 |
| what was the main food source in the Southeast? | growing crops easily developed corn that grew fast beans, squash, pumpkins, and sunflower. | section 1.12 |
| What were the type of homes they built in the Southeast? | Towns built around mounds, people clustered their houses around stripes of trees. | section 1.12 |
| What were the type of materials, crafts, and clothing they had? | Bows and arrows for animals. | section 1.12 |
| What were some tools that they used? | Bow and arrows | section 1.12 |
| How do historians learn how American Indians lived so long ago? | The main way historains could learn is through artifacts | warm-up |
| What was the most important to the survival of the American Indianas? | Ability to use natural resources. | warm-up |
| What is the main geographic feature of the Great Basin? | Between Serria Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, mostly desert. | section 1.7 |