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Eastern Woodlands & Plains Native Americans

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To protect themselves against enemies, what did many Iroquois tribes build around their villages?

a)

Palisades

b)

Longhouses

c)

Wigwams

d)

Wampum

2.

What was the Plains Native Americans main source of food/resource?

a)

Crops

b)

Wood

c)

Buffalo

d)

Deer

3.

What type of houses did the Iroquois live in?

a)

Wigwam

b)

Longhouse

c)

Palisade

d)

Tepee

4.

People often battled each other over control of what type of areas?

a)

Living

b)

Hunting

c)

Playing

d)

Farming

5.

Item used to make beaded designs that showed important decisions, events, or stories.

a)

Longhouse

b)

Tepee

c)

Arrowhead

d)

Wampum

6.

Round, bark covered shelters built by the Algonquians.

a)

Longhouses

b)

Tepees

c)

Wigwams

7.

For the Algonquians, ______________ was an important food source.

a)

Buffalo

b)

Fish

8.

How would the Algonquians make their canoes?

a)

Buy them from the store.

b)

Chop down a tree and carve the canoe with a metal axe.

c)

Chop down a tree and shape the canoe by using fire.

d)

They used animal skins to make their canoes.

9.

What would a man do if he wanted to marry a woman?

a)

Buy her the biggest diamond ring he could.

b)

Show her he was a good hunter.

c)

Make her a home.

d)

Run away.... girls are scary.

10.

What would a woman do if she wanted to marry a man?

a)

Show him that she was a good home-maker.

b)

Show him that she was a good cook.

c)

Grow a field of crops.

d)

Run away.... boys are gross.

11.

What does the word scarce mean?

a)

Tall wooden poles

b)

Short Supply

c)

Plains Native Americans main source of food

d)

A cone shaped tent

12.

A cone-shaped tent is called a ________________.

a)

Wigwam

b)

Longhouse

c)

Tepee

d)

Wampum

13.

Large earthen house is called a ______________?

a)

Tepee

b)

Longhouse

c)

Lodge

d)

Wigwam

14.

Layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses.

a)

Sod

b)

Scarce

c)

Travois

d)

Lodge

15.

Sled pulled by a dog or horse.

a)

Wigwam

b)

Lodge

c)

Travois

d)

Sod

16.

A loose group of governments working together.

a)

Buffalo

b)

Sod

c)

Wampum

d)

Confederation