IMPACT S.S. Chapter 1 Vocab

to try hard to achieve a goal

• harvest

• endeavor

• prairie

• potlatch

to take and gather such crops as wheat and corn for use

• endeavor

• slash-and-burn

• oral history

• harvest

a type of ancient writing that uses pictures for words

• hieroglyph

• hunter-gatherer

• mesa

• totem pole

early human who lived by gathering wild plants and hunting animals

• endeavor

• potlatch

• hunter-gatherer

• harvest

a flat-topped hill with steep sides

• oral history

• mesa

• prairie

• hieroglyph

spoken records, including stories, that have been passed from one generation to the next

• oral history

• harvest

• potlatch

• hunter-gatherer

a special feast given by the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, in which the guests receive gifts

• prairie

• endeavor

• mesa

• potlatch

flat or gently rolling land covered mostly with grasses or wildflowers

• prairie

• totem-pole

• endeavor

• hieroglyph

a method of clearing land for farming by cutting and burning trees

• harvest

• slash-and-burn

• mesa

• oral history

a tall carved log used by Native Americans of the Northwest Coast to honor an important person or to mark a special event

• hunter-gatherere

• mesa

• oral history

• totem pole