UIL Social Studies Tryout

Chapter 1
The Land and Native Peoples of North America

​Essential Question: How were the Lives of Native Peoples Influenced by Where They Lived?

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endeavor

• Know it! Can explain it!

• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

​endeavor

​to try hard to achieve a goal

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harvest

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harvest

to take and gather such crops as wheat and corn for use

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hieroglyph

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

hieroglyph

a type of ancient writing that uses pictures for words

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hunter-gatherer

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

hunter-gatherer

early humans who lived by gathering wild plants and hunting animals

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mesa

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

mesa

a flat-topped hill with steep sides

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oral history

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

oral history

spoken records, including stories, that have been passed from one generation to the next

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potlatch

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

potlatch

A Special feast given by the Native Americans of the Northwest coast, in which the guests receive gifts

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prairie

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

prairie

Flat or gently rolling land covered with grasses or wildflowers

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slash-and-burn

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• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

slash-and- burn

a method of clearing land for farming by cutting and burning trees

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totem pole

• Know it! Can explain it!

• Heard it! Don't know what it means.

• Don't know it!

totem pole

a tall carved log used by Native Americans of the North West Coast to honor an important person or to mark a special event