Native Americans

Why did the early Native Americans travel to the continent that is now known as North America?

• to find good farm land

• to follow the herds they hunted

• to search for a better climate

• to find new sources of water

What term refers to someone or something that existed before people started writing down history?

• nomadic

• native

• prehistoric

• ancestral

Which of the following was NOT one of the Mound Builder tribes?

• Cherokee

• Adena

• Hopewell

• Mississippian

What was one of the biggest challenges faced by the tribes of the Southwest region as they adapted to their environment?

• very cold weather

• too many buffalo

• not always enough water

• too much water

What was the name for the underground rooms used by the Ancestral Pueblo for religious ceremonies?

• igloos

• pueblos

• kachinas

• kivas

When the Ancestral Pueblo abandoned their homes, they began to live in __________.

• cliff dwellings

• tipis

• igloos

• wigwams

The Hopi planted many different crops, but which crop was the most important to them?

• wheat

• pumpkin

• beans

• corn

The "Hopi Way" refers to which of the following?

• the belief that they should be kind to one another and thoughtful toward the environment

• the way the Hopi people farmed the land

• the belief that the Hopi people should obtain their food through fishing rather than farming

• the way the Hopi built their houses

The Eastern Woodlands tribes built three types of homes to survive the cold, snowy winters. Which are two types of houses used by the Eastern Woodlands tribes?

• longhouses and wigwams

• igloos and kivas

• tipis and cliff dwellings

• pueblos and open-sided thatched roofs

Like many Native American tribes, when the tribes of the Southeast began to farm, they also continued to do which of the following activities?

• hunt

• gather

• fish

• all of the answers