Indigenous People Adapt to Environment

What does not make up a civilization?

• geography

• politics

• history

• achievements

How did people first come to the Americas?

• They sailed ships from Europe.

• People canoed from Africa.

• People walked from South America.

• They walked across a land bridge called Beringia.

Which natives adapted to land by building longhouses out of wood, hunting deer, and farming?

• Eastern Woodlands

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Great Plains

Which natives adapted to land by hunting buffalo, living in tipis, and roaming the grasslands?

• Northwest Coast

• California

• Southeast

• Great Plains

Which natives adapted to the coast, mountains, and deserts by eating acorns?

• Great Basin

• Eastern Woodlands

• Northwest Coast

• California

Why did indigenous people in Great Basin subsist on rabbits and lizards?

• The land is desert with limited food and water.

• The small animals were easy to capture.

• The people did not have bows and arrows.

• The animals were tasty.

Type true or false: Indigenous people believed that land could be owned.

What kind of housing did people in Southeast use?

• tipis

• mound villages

• longhouses

• adobe

Why did people in Southwest make houses out of adobe?

• Land has extreme temperatures; adobe is a good insulator.

• Mud is the only material.

• It was a popular style at the time.

• Adobe was a good protector against predators.

What is the brown country?