Native Americans

Climate is

• the language and food people eat
• the weather of a place over a long period of time
• landforms and distances from the equator
• the way people buy, sell, and use good

If many people want to buy and product and there is NOT enough of the product to go around

• conservation
• opportunity cost
• scarcity
• nonrenewable resources

What trait describes the Native Americans in the Eastern Plains?

• lived in stone houses
• traveled like nomads
• didn't farm well
• farmed and hunted buffalo

How did horses change the lives of the Plains Indians?

• made farming easier
• promoted peace
• made it easier to hunt and travel
• hunted horses instead of buffalo

Early Native Americans exchanged ideas and produces when they

• traded and bartered for food from other tribes
• spoke the same language
• meet every season
• took animals over long distances

Why are resources important for the growth of a region's economy?

• they determine language
• reduces trade between tribes
• keeps consumers from buying other products
• helps people decide what they should specialize in

How did geography help the Northwest Indians survive?

• depended on trapping animals
• they planted and depended on cotton for their way of life
• depended on farming for their food
• the sea, rivers, and forest were their main source of food

Pacific Northwest Americans such as the Kwakiutl, had the following resources

• corn and adobe brick
• cedar trees, salmon, and fish
• corn, squash, and buffalo meat
• deer, bear, rabbit, and cedar trees

Some Native American tribes never moved from one area because

• they were a clan
• trading was important
• farming was important for all the tribes so they stayed in one area
• their region was good for farming and they had many resources

Native Americans would trade with others.  This was a form of 

• forming a confederation
• electing a chief
• bartering
• using a wampum as a form of jewerly