Native American Cultures

What is one theory about how the first humans arrived in North America? (explore, p1)

• First Paleo-Indians walked across the Bering land bridge between Asia and North America 13,000 years ago.

• First Greeks walked across the Bering land bridge between Asia and North America 13,000 years ago.

• First Paleo-Indians walked across the Boston land bridge between Asia and North America 13,000 years ago.

What is another theory about how the first humans arrived in North America? (explore, p1)

• Others believe the first Paleo-Indians sailed to North America from Asia by boat 1,500 years ago.

• Others believe the first Paleo-Indians sailed to North America from Asia by boat 15,000 years ago.

• Others believe the first Paleo-Indians sailed to North America from Asia by boat 10,000 years ago.

Depending on where they settled on the continent, the people of the Western Hemisphere had very different lives.

The ________ peoples hunted whales and seals for food, clothing, and tools. They built homes of ice and snow.

Depending on where they settled on the continent, the people of the Western Hemisphere had very different lives.

People that lived on the ________ hunted buffalo, deer, and elk for food, and used their hides as clothing and building materials.

Depending on where they settled on the continent, the people of the Western Hemisphere had very different lives.

People of the Eastern Woodlands built homes, tools, and canoes from ______. They hunted and fished, and used animal skins for clothing.

Depending on where they settled on the continent, the people of the Western Hemisphere had very different lives.

The people of the Northwest carved wooden totems of animals and _________. They also built homes and tools from trees and hunted, fished, and trapped animals for food and other materials.

The Pueblo developed which of these techniques?

• building roads

• irrigating fields

• digging burial mounds

• carving stone spearheads

Tribes in the southwest grew less nomadic as they learned to make better use of the land. How did irrigation lead to permanent settlements?

• The use of mud to create clay that helped build forts.

• The use of mud to create clay that helped build homes.

• Creating dams helped tribes trade water.

Arctic peoples used what to create heat?

• wood

• animal bones and blubber

• blubber and wood

• blubber

Which statement best explains how we know this tribe adapted to their surroundings?

• they created objects from grass

• they were great farmers

• they used wood and bark from their surrounding environment