Native Americans & Indigenous Cultures Vocabulary Replay

Vocabulary Replay

First Peoples &
Native
Americans

1. Hint:

• the indigenous peoples and their

descendants, who were in the
North, Central and
South Americas before Europeans
arrived

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Multiple Choice

Which term is used for a member of any indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America?

• Native Americans

• Intermountain Tribes

• Clovis People

2. Hint:

• a group of Native

American people from Florida

• after the American Revolutionary

War, many Americans tried to
move into their land but they refused to sign a peace treaty

• this created conflict leading to

the ___________ Wars (1818-1858)

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to a native tribe from the Eastern Woodlands? (Hint: Florida is part of the Eastern Woodlands.)

• Anasazi

• Inuit

• Seminoles

• Aztec

3. Hint:

• a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture,

named after distinct stone tools
found at sites in New Mexico, in the
1920s and 1930s

•this culture's age is equal to
roughly 13,500 to 13,000 calendar
years ago

• considered to be the ancestors of

most of the indigenous cultures of
North and South America.

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to a prehistoric group of hunter gatherers who first crossed from Asia to into North America?

• Native Americans

• Clovis People

• Mayan Civilization

• Anasazi

4. Hint:

• a time of ice ages: cold glacial

periods with shorter, warmer,
interglacials

• during these glaciations, much of

the world we know was covered
by ice: North America down to
and past the Great Lakes; all of
northern Russia,
and Europe; England down to
the Thames

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to an ice age that formed roughly 1.8 million years ago?

• Bering Strait

• nomads

• Pleistocene Period

5. Hint:

• means people moving from their native regions into another country to live

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to people leaving one country in order to permanently settle in another?

• emigrate

• forage

• nomad

6. Hint:

• a person who collects

edible plants or fungi for
consumption

• can also refer to animals

who search for food

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to a person (or animal) who searches for food, such as fruits, berries, nuts and seeds?

• nomad

• Inuit

• forager

• emigrant

7. Hint:

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• they were an ancient Native

American culture that lived in what
is today the southeastern United
States

•their settlements were in the
present states
of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New
Mexico.

• known for building their "cliff

dwellings"

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to a prehistoric Native American civilization known for building villages into the sides of cliffs?

• Inuit

• Mayan Civilization

• Aztec Civilization

• Anasazi

8. Hint:

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•is a term in biogeography

•a narrow land connection between
otherwise separate areas,
sometimes called an isthmus.

• its significance is that animals and

plants may cross over it when
the sea level is lower

• they cannot easily cross when the

sea level is higher, and water
covers the land bridge.

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Multiple Choice

Which term is defined as a strip of land that connects continents?

• Bering Strait

• land bridge

• peninsula

9. Hint:

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• Indigenous peoples composed of

many nations and tribes

• Mostly relied on salmon as a

food resource

• located along the coast of what is

now called British
Columbia, Washington State, parts
of Alaska, Oregon, and Northern
California

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Multiple Choice

Which tribal region is located along the coast of Washington state and Alaska and whose diet consists mainly of fish?

• Seminoles

• Northwest Tribes

• Intermountain Tribes

• Inuit

10. Hint:

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• People who move from one place to

another, instead of living in one place

•Most are family men herding their
livestock, such as cattle,
or horses from pasture to pasture.

• These people have to change places

because of the weather.

• Others are traders and craftsmen

(people who make things), traveling to
exchange goods or to practice their
craft where it is needed.

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Multiple Choice

Which term refers to people who have no fixed home but move from place to place following their food?

• nomads

• foragers

• hunters

• gatherers

11. Hint:

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• Ocean that separates Siberia from

Alaska

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Multiple Choice

Which body of water separates Siberia from Alaska?

• Red Sea

• Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Bering Strait

12. Hint:

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• a group of culturally similar indigenous

peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic
regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec,
Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and
Alaska

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Multiple Choice

Which tribe is located in the Arctic?

• Incan

• Inuit

• Aztec

• Anasazi

13.
Hint:

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• Native American people who lived

in Mesoamerica.

• They ruled from the 14th century to

the 16th century.

• These people called themselves

the Mexica which is why the country is
called Mexico

• Located in central Mexico City

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Multiple Choice

Which civilization was considered a large empire that was located in central Mexico between the 15th and 16th century?

• Aztec Civilization

• Incan Civilization

• Mayan Civilization

14. Hint:

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• Native American people who lived in the

Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico

• Known for its unique system of writing

using symbols (glyph writing)

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Multiple Choice

Which civilization was established in the Yucatan Peninsula?

• Aztec Civilization

• Incan Civilization

• Mayan Civilization

15. Hint:

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• the largest empire in pre-Columbian

America

• the administrative, political and military

center of the empire was in the city
of Cusco

• the civilization arose from

the Peruvian highlands sometime in
the early 13th century

•The Spanish began the conquest of
the Empire in 1532

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Multiple Choice

Which civilization was considered the largest Pre-Columbian empire and located in Peru?

• Aztec Civilization

• Incan Civilization

• Mayan Civilization

16. Hint:

• Located east of the

Northwest Coast and
close to California

• Known for being

peaceful foragers
(gatherers) of berries,
roots, seeds, fruits, nuts,
fish and wildlife game

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Multiple Choice

Which tribes were considered peaceful and whose diet consisted of foraged berries, fruits, nuts and wild game (wild animals?)

• Arctic and Subarctic Tribes

• Intermountain Tribes

• Eastern Woodland Tribes

• Great Plains Tribes