Native Americans

1. According to the Land Bridge theory the Native Americans came to the Americas by:

• Crossing over the ocean in boats from Asia

• Crossing from Asia to North America during the Ice Age

• Crossing from Europe to North America during the first century

• Swimming across the Bering Strait from Asia

2. Native Americans who lived in the Great Basin survived, although ____ were scarce.

• Water and animals

• Land and mountains

• Sand and Oceans

• Wickiups and windbreaks

4. Native Americans in the Plains ______.

• Lived in wickiups and ate wild berries

• Lived in wigwams and hunted deer

• Lived in adobe houses and farmed

• Lived in tepees and hunted buffalo

Native Americans in the Southwest lived in:

• Pueblos made out of adobe

• Tepees made out of buffalo hides

• Wigwams made out of sticks and bark

• Wickiups made out of wood

Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands _______

• Lived in wickiups and hunted buffalo

• Lived in tepees and hunted mammoths

• Lived in wigwams and hunted deer

• Lived in adobe houses and ate berries

Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest ate a lot of____.

• buffalo

• salmon

• beef

• bananas

Native Americans in the Great Basin ate_________

• Lots of buffalo and deer

• Crops like corn and okra

• Snakes, lizards, and wild berries

• Beef and pork

The area of the Eastern Woodlands borders the _____.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Sierra Nevada Mountains

• The Bering Strait

The area of the Northwest and Southwest coasts borders the____.

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Blue Ridge Mountains

Identify one way in which all Native Americans were alike.

• They all had the same religion.

• All tribes lived in tepees.

• The land and everything on it was respected by Native Americans.

• All tribes depended on the river and oceans as their main food source.