8th Unit 1 - Native Americans Check for Understanding

All of the Native American groups that inhabited the Americas had similar cultures.

• True

• False

The geography and climate of the region had a huge influence on the culture of the Native Americans that inhabited that region.

• True

• False

What is one reason Native American Indian tribes developed different forms of shelter?

• The geography of the region

• The interactions with European explorers

• The relationship with surrounding Native American Indian Tribes.

• The access that the Native American Indian Tribes had to the Bering Land Bridge

Geography led to the development of different cultural groups in North America.

• True

• False

Why do Native American tribes develop different cultures?

• They followed different religions
• They lived in different environments
• They liked different foods
• They had different transportation methods

Why did Native Americans develop different cultures in different regions of the continent?

• they were instructed to be different
• they wanted to be different
• they came to the Americas from different parts of the world
• they adapted to their environment in different ways

Native American

• a man made feature on the earth’s surface

• a person’s rights and responsibilities in a structured society

• a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs

• a natural (not man-made) landform on the earth’s surface

• the indigenous people of North, Central, and South America

How did landforms influence the culture of Native Americans?

• Native Americans belonged to just one tribe that controlled the entire North American continent with one very distinct culture shared by all Native Americans.

• Native Americans adapted to the diverse American environment and these diverse environments contributed to Native Americans developing many diverse nations with diverse cultures.

• All of the Native Americans were hunters and gathers, they moved around and paid little to no attention to the geography. They had little to no interaction with other tribes and had no culture.

• Every Native tribes in the United States has unique traditions and distinct styles of housing, dress, and food, but this has NOTHING to do with the physical features of the US.

The __________ Era can be described as the time period before Europeans arrived to the Americas.

• Puebloan
• Pre-contact
• Mustangs
• Landform

Culture:

• a man made feature on the earth’s surface

• a person’s rights and responsibilities in a structured society

• a way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs

• a natural (not man-made) landform on the earth’s surface

• the indigenous people of North, Central, and South America