Native American Regions

Match the following

• The Plains

• ate lots of salmon, but also whales, sea otters, and seals

• Eastern Woodland

• Ate maize, beans, squash, and peppers

  The Apache eventually raised sheep and goats.

• Pacific Northwest

• hunted and ate deer, rabbit, squirrel

  had gardens that grew the 3 sisters (beans, squash, and maize)

• Desert Southwest

• Some tribes ate maize, squash and beans, but mostly they ate bison (~buffalo)

To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to

• develop their own religions.

• build houses out of wood.

• adapt to their environment.

• speak the same language.

Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from

• buffalo herds.

• desert plants.

• their own farms.

• rivers and the sea.

Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering

• lots of camas and salmon.

• limited food and water.

• large supplies of acorns.

• crops of corn, beans, and squash.

Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building

• thick-walled abobe houses.

• wooden houses out of cedar logs.

• movable tipis made of buffalo skins.

• homes clustered around mounds.

How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?

• They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge.

• They sailed from Polynesia in large canoes.

• They paddled across the Bering Strait from Siberia in kayaks.

• They rowed from Iceland in sturdy wooden boats.

The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of the

• Northwest Coast.

• Eastern Woodlands.

• Plateau Region.

• Great Plains.

Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for

• clearing the forest for farms.

• building longhouses for shelter.

• planting and harvesting crops.

• trading with nearby villages.

Match the following

• Desert Southwest

• 
• Eastern Woodland

• 
• Pacific Northwest

• 
• The Plains

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Native Americans in the Southeast built

• adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas.

• towns clustered around large earthen mounds.

• villages of longhouses in the forest near streams.

• underground pit houses beside major rivers.