The First Peoples: Environment, Biodiversity, and Climate Change

The Indigenous Peoples see land as ____

• something that CAN be owned.

• something that CANNOT be owned.

The Indigenous People have a/an ____ tie to the land.

• intricate

• respectful

• grateful

• protective

• All of the above

Being connected to the land means ____.

• they feel a responsibility to protect the land and everything that lives on it.

• they can own and develop it as they see fit.

• they can make money from the land by selling off its natural resources.

The First Nations believe that everything in the universe is ____.

• flexible

• real

• connected

• bivalent

____ believe more in the ownership of the land.

• Indigenous people

• Non-indigenous people

All First Nations communities have relied on the biodiversity in their home regions because...

• they live off the land.

• they use their resources for survival.

• All of the above

The First Nations have always had a strong connection to the plants and animals in their regions: The North West Coastal Indigenous people had the ____, the Plains Cree had the ____, the Inuit had the ____, and the Eastern Woodlands people had the ____.

• seal

  bison

  deer

  salmon

• seal

  deer

  bison

  salmon

• salmon

  bison

  seal

  deer

• salmon

  deer

  bison

  seal

In what ways was biodiversity used in the traditions and culture of the First Nations?

• In their art forms

• In their celebrations

• In their belief systems

• All of the above

What Indigenous group of people used the Thunderbird at the top of their totem poles?

• The Inuit

• The Plains Cree

• The Northwest Coastal Indigenous Peoples

• The Eastern Woodlands

The ____ diversity of plants and animals there were, allowed the First Nations to have enough resources for things like food, medicine, and building supplies.

• greater

• lesser

• same