Unit 1 vocabulary social studies

a change or adjustment that allows people to survive

• origin story

• adaptation

• migration

• culture

objects, such as tools or clothing, made by a group of humans

• artifacts

• culture

• cash crop

• natural resources

when people move from place to place. they have no permanent home

• americas

• culture

• migration

• nomad

These killed off many Native Americans because their bodies could not fight them off.

• explorers

• contagious diseases

• colonies

• natural resources

The ____________ culture were very nomadic. They followed their food wherever it went. They hunted big game for food.

• Mississippian

• Woodland

• Paleo

• archaic

These are things that are useful to people that came from nature

• origin story

• natural resources

• astrolabe

• culture

An early scientific tool used to observe and calculate the position of the sun and other stars

• compass

• astrolabe

• telescope

• calendar

Masses of land that Europeans considered to be the "New World"

• Europe

• United States

• Central America

• North, South, and Central America

Native Americans traveled across a _________during the ice age

• ice gap
• iceberg
• land bridge 
• ice bridge

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

A person who has no permanent home and travels frequently is a

• americans

• nomad

• conquistador

• homeless