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Major Groups of Northwest Coast Peoples

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The science and business of growing crops, raising livestock, and farming.

a)

Clan

b)

Totem

c)

Agriculture

d)

Weir

2.

A group of people with common ancestry.

a)

Agriculture

b)

Totem

c)

Weir

d)

Clan

3.

An object, believed to have spiritual significance, used as a symbol of a clan.

a)

Totem

b)

Agriculture

c)

Weir

d)

Clan

4.

A fence or dam put in a stream to catch fish.

a)

Agriculture

b)

Clan

c)

Totem

d)

Weir

5.

What was one way the Northwest Coast people used cedar logs?

a)

To build canoes

b)

To build TeePees

c)

To build homes

d)

To build shoes

6.

How were the Northwest Coast groups different from one another?

4 lines
7.

Which picture shows a representation of a totem pole?

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

In late spring, salmon leave the ocean and swim up freshwater streams where they lay their eggs.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What figures did they carve the totem poles into?

4 lines
10.

How did the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast travel almost everywhere by__________.

a)

Car

b)

Canoe

c)

Horse

d)

Foot