Lesson 2 Vocabulary Quiz

A circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies.

• Migration

• Origin story

• Kiva

A story that explains where ancestors of tribe members came from.

• Origin story

• Kiva

• Hopi

The movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new place in another country or area.

• Origin story

• Migration

• Natural resources

Everything that surrounds a given area.

• Grasslands

• Kiva

• Environment

Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, vegetation, and minerals.

• Adaptation

• Fossil fuels
• Natural resources

An environment where huge sheets of ice cover the land for most of the year.

• Arctic Ice Fields

• Grasslands

• Mountains

• Deserts

An environment that has very little rain and dry sandy conditions.

• Desert

• Arctic Ice Fields

• Grasslands

• Mountain

An environment that is rainy and snowy, with forests of pine, fir, and spruce growing at its highest points.

• Desert

• Mountains

• Arctic Ice Fields

• Grasslands

An environment that has flat land and only gets enough rain to support different types of grasses.

• Mountains

• Arctic Ice Fields

• Grasslands

• Deserts

A change or adjustment in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment.

• Environment

• Natural Resource

• Adaptation