Chapter 1: The First Americans

What is the definition of culture?

• an organized and advanced society

• the way of life shared by a group of people

• a group of relatives who lived in the past

• the way people make rules and decisions

What is an economy?

• a traded good that is raw material and not manufactured

• a trade agreement between groups in a league or nation

• a system a group creates to make and exchange goods

• a system a group uses to make rules and decisions

Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

Which American Indian group is most likely pictured?

• Inuit

• Puebloan

• Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

1. The Inuit lived in a  _______ (cold, mild, hot) climate by _______ (the desert, rivers, the sea).
2. The Mound Builders lived in a _______ (hot, mild, cold)  climate by ______ (the sea, rivers, the desert).

• cold, the sea, mild, rivers

• mild, the sea, cold, the desert

• hot, the desert, cold, the sea

• mild, rivers, hot, the desert

Look at the map. Then answer the question.

How does climate relate to the information in the map?

• The first Americans moved north in search of food.

• The first Americans oved south in search of warmer climates.

• 
  The first Americans moved west in search of dry land.

• The first Americans moved north in search of cooler climates.

Which answer arranges American Indian groups in the order in which they settled from north to south to east?

• 
  Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, Inuit

• Inuit, Pacific Northwest, Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest, Inuit, Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest, Great Plains, Inuit

Which action is the clearest example of an American Indian group changing its environment?

• sailing across the Pacific Ocean

• making peace with a warring group

• digging canals to transport water to crops

• migrating across a temporary land bridge

Look at the photograph.

Which characteristics match with the picture of the shelter for that cultural group?

• used kayaks, hunted whales

• ate corns and beans, used irrigation

• nomadic, hunted buffalo

• used kayaks, ate corn and beans

Look at the photograph.

Which characteristics match with the picture of the shelter for that cultural group?

• used kayaks, hunted whales

• ate corns and beans, used irrigation

• nomadic, hunted buffalo

• used kayaks, ate corn and beans

Look at the photograph.

Which characteristics match with the picture of the shelter for that cultural group?

• used kayaks, hunted whales

• ate corns and beans, used irrigation

• nomadic, hunted buffalo

• used kayaks, ate corn and beans