Chapter 1 Vocabulary

To change in order to live in a new place

• Adapt

• Culture

• Economy

• Bison

A method of moving water from a source to where it is needed, such as for watering crops.

• Agriculture

• Migrate

• Irrigation

• Culture

A large animal that once roamed the Great Plains.

• Culture

• Bison

• Adapt

• Migrate

The system by which a group makes, uses, and shares or distributes goods and services.

• Irrigation

• Civilization

• Culture

• Economy

Someone who hunts animals and collects wild plants for food.

• Adapt

• Hunter-gatherer

• Bison

• Culture

To move

• Migrate

• Adapt

• Agriculture

• Civilization

A system of beliefs and ways of living that are special to a certain group, including their language, religion, government, and arts.

• Civilization

• Migrate

• Culture

• Agriculture

The system of growing crops for food.

• Hunter-gatherer

• Irrigation

• Migrate

• Agriculture

A complex culture that has made advances in learning, as well as in systems of government, religon, economics, and the arts.

• Culture

• Agriculture

• Civilizations

• Migrate