Unit 1: Culture Areas

Culture Area Topic: Climate

Categorize the following climate traits with their proper culture area.

Groups:

(a) The Arctic

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(b) The Subarctic

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(c) The Plains

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(d) The Southwest

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Culture Area Topic: Native Groups

Categorize the following Native Groups with their proper culture area.

Groups:

(a) The Arctic

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(b) The Subarctic

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(c) Plains

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(d) Southwest

• Cree, Ojibwa, and the Naskapi

• Hopi, the Zuni, the Yaqui and the Yuma

• Inuit and Aleut

• Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche and Arapaho

Culture Area Topic: Daily Life

Categorize the following daily life traits with their proper culture area.

Groups:

(a) The Arctic

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(b) The Northwest

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(c) California

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(d) The Great Basin

• Few nomads, following seals, polar bears and other game as they migrated across the tundra.

• Some were a bit more settled, living in small fishing villages along the shore.

• Villages operated according to a rigidly stratified social structure.

• Settlements and social groups were impermanent, and communal leadership

• They did not practice much agriculture.

• Organized themselves into small, family-based bands of hunter-gatherers known as tribelets.

• Lived in compact, easy-to-build wikiups made of willow poles or saplings, leaves and brush.

• The ocean and the region’s rivers provided almost everything its people needed.

This is the term that means to encourage the growth of something through work and attention.

This is the term that means community and interactions of living and nonliving things in an area.

This is the term meaning, to move from one place or activity to another.

This is the term to describe any area on Earth with one or more common characteristics. These are the basic units of geography.

A ___ is another word for community or village.

Using your knowledge of The Arctic culture area, draw a depiction of the Inuit and Aleut's home and environment.

___ describes characteristic to or of a specific place.