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WorksheetsNative American Regions
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 9mins
Match the following
Ate maize, beans, squash, and peppers
The Apache eventually raised sheep and goats.
Pacific Northwest
ate lots of salmon, but also whales, sea otters, and seals
Eastern Woodland
Some tribes ate maize, squash and beans, but mostly they ate bison (~buffalo)
The Plains
hunted and ate deer, rabbit, squirrel
had gardens that grew the 3 sisters (beans, squash, and maize)
Desert Southwest
To survive in different areas, native peoples had to learn to
develop their own religions.
build houses out of wood.
adapt to their environment.
speak the same language.
Native Americans living on the Northwest Coast got most of their food from
buffalo herds.
desert plants.
their own farms.
rivers and the sea.
Native Americans of the Great Basin lived in a region offering
lots of camas and salmon.
limited food and water.
large supplies of acorns.
crops of corn, beans, and squash.
Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to a desert climate by building
thick-walled abobe houses.
wooden houses out of cedar logs.
movable tipis made of buffalo skins.
homes clustered around mounds.
How do scientists think people first migrated to the Americas?
They walked from Asia across the Beringia land bridge.
They sailed from Polynesia in large canoes.
They paddled across the Bering Strait from Siberia in kayaks.
They rowed from Iceland in sturdy wooden boats.
The buffalo provided food, clothing, tools, and shelter for Native Americans of the
Northwest Coast.
Eastern Woodlands.
Plateau Region.
Great Plains.
Among the Iroquois-speaking people of the Eastern Woodlands, women were responsible for
clearing the forest for farms.
building longhouses for shelter.
planting and harvesting crops.
trading with nearby villages.
Match the following
The Plains
Eastern Woodland
Pacific Northwest
Desert Southwest
Native Americans in the Southeast built
adobe villages on top of flat desert mesas.
towns clustered around large earthen mounds.
villages of longhouses in the forest near streams.
underground pit houses beside major rivers.
Which region on the map best fits this description of its environment?
• treeless grasslands
• dense grasses
• large buffalo herds
California
Great Basin
Great Plaines
Southwest
Which region on the has the largest freshwater lakes?
Eastern Woodlands
Southeast
Great Basin
Plateau
Match the following
Between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River
Eastern Woodlands
East of the Mississippi and Southeast Canada
The Plains
Southwest portion of North America
Pacific Northwest
From the northern West coast to the Rocky Mountains
Desert Southwest
In what kind of region did the Native Americans shown here live?
arctic
desert
woodlands
plains
What can you conclude about how these people got their food?
They raised crops.
They hunted buffalo.
They harvested shellfish.
They gathered acorns.
This region has lots of trees, rivers, and streams.
Eastern Woodlands
Southwest
Great Plains
Pacific Northwest
Great Basin
Describe the environment of the Southeast.
dry & rocky, difficult farming, deserts, few rivers
flat & grassy, few trees, rivers & streams, no large bodies of water
mountains, swampy areas, grassy areas, Atlantic Ocean
dark forests, cedar trees, rivers & lakes
Describe a shelter of the Southwest.
chickees - made of straw roofs
plank houses made of cedar without windows
adobe houses - made of sand
tipi - made of buffalo hide
Food: no plants, most meat, polar bear, seals, caribou, beluga whale
Far North
Southeast
Southwest
Northwest
Match the following
reliable environment with ocean life, forests, and salmon from rivers
Pacific Northwest
lots of rainfall, lakes, rivers, streams, and thick forests
The Plains
Not a lot of forests and fresh water streams, but plenty of buffalo
Desert Southwest
mineral wealth, deserts, few rivers, inconsistent rain
Eastern Woodland
