Unit 1 SS Arctic / Northwest Indians

1. What did the Arctic Indians eat?

• Polar bear, seal, fish, berries, birds and caribou

• Steak and potatoes

• cabbage, nuts and rice

• corn, beans and squash

2. What did the Arctic Indians wear?

• turbans

• woven fibers from trees

• cedar bark and fur robes

• inner fur suit, outer fur suit, sealskin, snowshoes..

3. The Arctic people settled in the frozen tundra of ______ and Canada.

• Greenland

• Rocky Mountains

• Alaska

4. Inuit means "___ ______".

• the inuit

• Inuit Indians

• the people

5. Winter homes called ______ were made of snow and ice.

• chickees

• igloos

• adobe

• plank lodges

6. What did the Northwestern Indians eat?

• cabbage

• corn

• grapes

• fish

7. What did the Northwestern Indians wear?

• shirts and pants

• cedar bark and fur robes

• snowshoes and fur suits

• turbans

8. The Indians of the ____ region were able to make longhouses from the cedar planks and soften the cedar bark to make clothing with the tall cedar trees of the area.

• Plains

• Southeast

• Northwest

• Arctic

9. Why did the Indians from the Arctic region build their permanent shelters out of blocks of ice?

• there are few large trees in the Arctic

• they used the natural resources available

• they lived in a cold climate

• All of the above

10. The people of the Northwest region set traps in streams and rivers to collect which food?

• deer

• salmon

• caribou

• whale