Native American Cultural Regions: Test Practice

Select all the proper names of cultural regions below.

• Eastern Woodlands

• Eastern Plains

• Southeast

• Beach and Sea

• California Intermountain

The Pueblo people used _____________________ to grow crops in a dry land.

• irrigation

• ocean water

• wind power

• underground houses

Native Americans had to _________ to their environment in order to survive.

• arrest

• adapt

• leave

• nomad

A group of people roam a region or from place to place in search of food is said to be ______________________

• stationary

• nomadic

Which region included rocky beaches, cedar houses for multiple families, and totem poles outside of homes to represent family status?

• Eastern Woodlands

• Southeast

• Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest Coast

A source that is written or created by someone who witnessed an event is a__________________________

• primary source

• secondary source

The Algonquians and other native groups in the Eastern Woodlands made this type of home out of trees and earth that were bent into a dome shape.

• wigwam

• chickee

• teepee

• longhouses

7. Traditions and stories about the past that are passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth or storytelling is known as ____________________

• oral history

• primary source

• secondary source

• irrigation

People of the Great Plains mainly lived in houses called...

• teepees

• wigwams

• chickees

• longhouses

9. Which Native American cultural region was home to tribes such as the Iroquois and Algonquians. These tribes built homes like longhouses made of woods from the forest or wigwams to live in. The region contained many deer, beaver, fish, nuts, and berries to live off of. The geography of the region had plentiful lakes, streams, rivers, and even an ocean.

• Pacific Northwest Coast

• Great Plains

• Eastern Woodlands

• Southwest