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Vocabulary Assessment Worksheet Extraction

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To move from one place to another. Hint: Birds do this in the winter. They ____ to the south.

a)
MIGRATE
b)

HUNT

c)

GATHER

d)

CULTURE

2.

Belief, customs and traditions are part of your. Hint: The music you listen to, the food you eat. All of that is part of your ____.

a)
CULTURE
b)

POTLATCH

c)

IGLOO

d)

INUIT

3.

Groups who hunted animals and gathered berries were known as. Hint: Groups who HUNTED animals and Gathered berries were known as ____ & ____.

a)

pueblos and adobes

b)

ancestors and potlatches

c)

hunters & gatherers

d)

boys and girls

4.

Another word for farming. Hint: It is a bigger, fancier word that starts with the letter A.

a)
AGRICULTURE
b)

IRRIGATION

c)

ANIMAL

d)

ANIMATE

5.

A person who moves from place to place (no permanent home). Hint: Most of the early natives that hunted and gathered followed herds of animals. These people didn’t stay in one place for long.

a)
NOMAD
b)

IGLOO

c)

RESOURCE

d)

MAKAH

6.

What is the name of the land bridge that was once used by the first Americans. Hint: It is where you can find Little Diomede and Big Diomede.

a)
BERING STRAIT
b)

POTLATCH

c)

MAKAH

d)

INUIT

7.

People most likely moved into the Americas following ____. Hint: They were hunting and had to follow the food! What would be the food?

a)
HERDS OF ANIMALS
b)

HERDS OF IGLOOS

c)

HERDS OF NOMADS

d)

HERDS OF INUITS

8.

A group of people who lived in the frozen far north and were hunter-gatherers. Hint: They ice fished, built igloos.

a)
INUIT
b)

MAKAH

c)

LENAPE

d)

CHEROKEE

9.

Groups that lived close together tended to have similar…. Hint: They ate similar foods, they had similar homes. This is because they used the same natural resources.

a)
CULTURES
b)

NOMAD

c)

MIGRATE

d)

POTLATCH

10.

When people change their actions to survive their environment it is said they are ____. Hint: When you have to change to fit the situation. You are _____.

a)

ADAPTING

b)

POLING

c)

MIGRATING

d)

RESOURCES

11.

The pueblos of the Southwest lived in homes made of. Hint: The red sand.

(a)  

12.

In what region of the United States would you find the bison. Hint: Wide open land - a lot of place to run and roam free.

a)
THE GREAT PLAINS
b)

SOUTHWEST

c)

EASTERN WOODLANDS

d)

ARCTIC

13.

This temporary shelter was easy to put up and take down. Natives of the Great Plains used it. Hint: It was made of about 18 bison hides. And the women put it together.

a)
TEEPEE
b)

IGLOO

c)

LONGHOUSE

d)

PLANKHOUSE

14.

People of the Eastern Woodlands often lived in these large wooden structures called ____. Hint: They can be as long as a football field and fit up to 30 families!

a)
LONGHOUSES
b)

PLANKHOUSES

c)

TEEPEE

d)

IGLOO

15.

Match each Native American group to their correct description.

a)

Lenape

1.

Lived in the area where we live today.

b)

Pueblo

2.

Lived in the Southwest, known for their adobe dwellings

c)

Makah

3.

Lived in the Pacific Northwest, known for whaling and fishing

d)

Inuit

4.

Lived in the Arctic, adapted to cold climates and built igloos

16.

A set of beliefs or a way of life that is special to a certain group is called (a)   .

Choose from the below words
Culture
Irrigation
Resource
Confederation
17.

Natives cut down trees and burn out or carve the inside to form a (a)   .

Choose from the below words
Dugout canoe
Kayak
Totem pole
Longhouse
18.

The Pueblo of the Southwest lived in homes made of (a)  

Choose from the below words
Adobe
Wood
Stone
Brick
19.

(a)   is an animal important to the Makah of the Pacific Northwest. Hint: They recently began hunting this animal.

Choose from the below words
Whale
Seal
Bison
Bear
20.

(a)   was important to the people of the Great Plains. Hint: They used the stomach for a cooking bag!

Choose from the below words
Bison
Whale
Seal
Fish
21.

Where you live determines (a)   you live. Hint: We say this in class a lot!

22.

Native people used what they had in their environment. These are their natural ____.

a)
resources
b)

potlatch

c)

migrates

d)

nomads

23.

Match each natural resource to what it is commonly used to build or make.

a)

Ice

1.

Used to build an igloo

b)

Wood

2.

Used to build a log cabin

c)

Adobe

3.

Used to build a sun-dried brick house

d)

Stone

4.

Used to build a castle

24.

A way of bringing water to plants. Hint: It starts with an I

a)

Irrigation

b)

Insulation

c)

Indigo

d)

Inspiration

25.

Which region is known for its nomadic tribes that hunted buffalo?

a)

Great Plains

b)

Mississippi River Valley

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

Caribbean Islands

26.

All Native Americans bought their tools from Home Depot and their food from WalMart.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

A Native American is a person who _____________________.

a)

travelled to Europe to start a new life

b)

swims with large sea mammals

c)

is descended from people who migrated from Asia during the last Ice Age

d)

eats raw fish and nothing else

28.

How did the first settlers to the Americas get there?

a)

they flew

b)

they swam

c)

they walked

d)

they rode on the backs of mammoths