Chapter 1, lesson 2 My World Interactive Social Studies

Which statement accurately compares Folklore and Tradition?

• Traditions involve folklore - the customs, stories, and beliefs of a people

• Traditions are more important than folklore because they are passed down from parents to children.

• Folklore includes some aspects of traditions, which are the systems or ways that people make decisions as a group

• Folklore is the system of decision making and power sharing for a group that wants to change the rules and make new traditions.

What is animism?

• A custom that is passed down from one generation to the next

• A belief that social position is determined by age

• A belief that animals and natural forces have spirits

• A custom that marks a young person passing into adulthood.

Read this Yokut Indian creation story. Then answer the question.

Long ago, a great flood had covered Earth. While it was still covered with water, nothing lived upon the land. Then one day a giant eagle carrying a black crow on its back flew out of the sky, looking for a place to land.

This is an example of what?

• folklore

• ancestors

• potlatch

• customs

Which Indian group is least likely to have a Green Corn Ceremony?

• Mound Builders

• Woodlands

• Navajo

• Inuit

Which statement accurately compares roles in Traditional American Indian groups?

• Children gathered water and firewood while women played games

• Men hunted animals that women prepared and stored.

• Men chose the women who performed religious ceremonies

• Children told stories to their parents who made Kachina dolls

What is the definition of culture?

• a group of relatives that lived in the past

• an organized and advanced society

• the way of life shared by a group of people

• the way people make rules and decisions

Which action is the clearest example if an American Indian group changing its environment?

• sailing across the Pacific Ocean

• migrating across a temporary land bridge

• making peace with a warring group

• digging canals to transport water to crops

Which Native American group used kayaks?

• Hopi

• Inuit

• Navajo

• Iroquois

Which Native Group lived in cliff dwellings?

• Navajo

• Inuit

• Pueblo

• Chinook

Which region of Native Americans hunted buffalo?

• Eastern Woodland

• Southwestern Desert

• Northwestern

• Plains