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Social Studies Ch3
VanHoef SS Alive 5th grade
Question | Answer |
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What is nomadic? | People who moved from place to place as changes in seasons made food available in different areas |
What are the seven regions? | Northwest Coast, California-Intermountain, Southwest, Plateau, Great Plains, Eastern Woodlands and Southeast regions |
What are artifacts? | Human-made objects that help us understand how the people who made them lived |
What was one artifact of the Northwest Coast indians? | The Kwakiutls carved totem poles. They carved animals, humans and spirits on these. They dinvidated the family's history and social position. |
What was one artifact of the California-Intermountain Pomos? | They made beautiful beads from shells and clams. They used them as money. |
What was one artifact of the Southwest Hopis? | They made beautiful clay pots and decorated them with geometric designs. They used them to cook and store food in |
What was one artifact of the Plateau Yakimas? | They made digging sticks to help dig up roots for food. |
What was one artifact of the Great Plains Sioux? | They used buffalo hides to keep warm and recorded their histories by painting on them. They even made shields from buffalo! |
What was one artifact of the Eastern Woodland Algonquins? | They made fast, light canoes from cedar trees and birchbark |
What was one artifact of the Southeast Seminoles? | They built flat-bottomed dugout canoes from tree logs to move along the shallow streams |