Native Americans Chapter Two

A people's way of life is known as:

• anthropology

• culture

• environment

• clan

This culture region hunted and farmed:

• Northwest

• Southwest

• Plains

• Eastern Woodland

Most historians believe the first people to live in North America came from here across a land bridge:

• Iceland

• Europe

• Africa

• Asia

Areas where methods of living are alike:

• environment

• culture region

• suburbs

• zones

This culture region lived in tepees:

• Plains

• Northwest

• Southwest

• Eastern Woodland

By the time Columbus arrived in the America's:

• Native Americans had developed very different cultures and were divided into different culture regions

• Native Americans had developed a single, unified culture

• Native Americans had established a trade route to the Indies

• Europeans wanted to trade for gold located in the Americas

Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest:

• followed the migrations of the buffalo

• depended on the ocean for food

• built earthen mounds to bury their dead

• lived in homes made of adobe

In the Southwest, Native American villages were:

• made out of cedar trees

• built on mesas

• occupied only part of the year

• located near the hunting grounds

Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands used the slash-and-burn method to:

• harvest their crops

• fertilize the soil

• build homes on rock cliffs

• clear land for crops and villages

An archaeologist studies:

• ancient languages

• human remains

• artifacts

• human culture