Chapter 1

An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language is known as what?

• Cultural State

• Cultural County

• Cultural Nation

• Cultural Region

A people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings and clothing is known as what?

• Religion

• Culture

• Occupation

• Community

Useful materials found in water, vegetation, animals and minerals are known as what?

• Natural Resources

• Manufactured Goods

• Environment

• Cultural Region

To move from one place and establish a home in a new place is to what?

• Riot

• Evacuate

• Migrate

• Commute

All of the physical surrounding in a place, including land, water, animals, plants and climate is known as

what?

• Environment

• Natural Resource

• Culture

• Culture Region

Which of these describes one way American Indians adapted the environment to meet their needs?

• Arctic people raised livestock.

• Southwest people made many things with corn.

• Great Plains people made clothing from animal hides.

• Eastern Woodlands people burned trees to plant corn.

How did the American Indians in the Southeast live?

• They lived in wooden longhouses in the forest.

• They lived in adobe villages on top of flat mesas.

• They lived in underground pit houses beside major rivers.

• They lived in towns clustered around large earthen mounds.

American Indians who lived on the Plains wore clothing made from animal hides. Which of these was an

important economic activity in this region?

• fishing

• mining

• hunting

• gathering

How was it possible for the mesa people to grow corn in the desert?

• They used rain barrels.

• They dug irrigation ditches.

• They traded their crops for water.

• They planted drought-tolerant corn.

American Indians of which region lived in a very arid (dry) climate?

• California

• Great Basin

• Plateau

• Great Plains