Social Studies-Ch 2-Native Americans and Their Land

tales that explain how Earth and its people came to be

• Origin stories

• Migration routes

• Environments

• Adapt

paths that Native Americans took to their new homes in North and South America

• Origin stories

• Migration routes

• Environments

• Adapt

to use the natural resources to adjust to living in a particular environment

• Origin stories

• Migration routes

• Environments

• Adapt

places where Native Americans settled that had water, land, animals, plants, and other natural resources

• Origin Stories

• Migration Routes

• Environments

• Adapt

Many Native American groups, like Hopis, have origin stories.

• True

• False

The first Native Americans migrated to the Americas from another part of the world.

• True

• False

Native American groups all settled in the same kind of environment.

• True

• False

Native Americans, such as the Inuit, used the natural resources around them to adapt to the environment.

• True

• False

Which of the following best describes what most scientist believe to be the migration route of most Native Americans.

• by land from northeast Asia, across a land bridge to North America, and then into South America.

• by sea across the Pacific Ocean to North and South America

• by land from South America and then into North America

• by sea from Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, and into North and South America.

Which of the following is not a natural resource?

• forest

• deer and rabbits

• origin story

• animal skins