WorksheetsVocabulary Assessment Worksheet Extraction
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
To move from one place to another. Hint: Birds do this in the winter. They ____ to the south.
HUNT
GATHER
CULTURE
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 ____.
POTLATCH
IGLOO
INUIT
Groups who hunted animals and gathered berries were known as. Hint: Groups who HUNTED animals and Gathered berries were known as ____ & ____.
pueblos and adobes
ancestors and potlatches
hunters & gatherers
boys and girls
Another word for farming. Hint: It is a bigger, fancier word that starts with the letter A.
IRRIGATION
ANIMAL
ANIMATE
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.
IGLOO
RESOURCE
MAKAH
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.
POTLATCH
MAKAH
INUIT
People most likely moved into the Americas following ____. Hint: They were hunting and had to follow the food! What would be the food?
HERDS OF IGLOOS
HERDS OF NOMADS
HERDS OF INUITS
A group of people who lived in the frozen far north and were hunter-gatherers. Hint: They ice fished, built igloos.
MAKAH
LENAPE
CHEROKEE
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.
NOMAD
MIGRATE
POTLATCH
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 _____.
ADAPTING
POLING
MIGRATING
RESOURCES
The pueblos of the Southwest lived in homes made of. Hint: The red sand.
(a)
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.
SOUTHWEST
EASTERN WOODLANDS
ARCTIC
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.
IGLOO
LONGHOUSE
PLANKHOUSE
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!
PLANKHOUSES
TEEPEE
IGLOO
Match each Native American group to their correct description.
Lenape
Lived in the area where we live today.
Pueblo
Lived in the Southwest, known for their adobe dwellings
Makah
Lived in the Pacific Northwest, known for whaling and fishing
Inuit
Lived in the Arctic, adapted to cold climates and built igloos
A set of beliefs or a way of life that is special to a certain group is called (a) .
Natives cut down trees and burn out or carve the inside to form a (a) .
The Pueblo of the Southwest lived in homes made of (a)
(a) is an animal important to the Makah of the Pacific Northwest. Hint: They recently began hunting this animal.
(a) was important to the people of the Great Plains. Hint: They used the stomach for a cooking bag!
Where you live determines (a) you live. Hint: We say this in class a lot!
Native people used what they had in their environment. These are their natural ____.
potlatch
migrates
nomads
Match each natural resource to what it is commonly used to build or make.
Ice
Used to build an igloo
Wood
Used to build a log cabin
Adobe
Used to build a sun-dried brick house
Stone
Used to build a castle
A way of bringing water to plants. Hint: It starts with an I
Irrigation
Insulation
Indigo
Inspiration
Which region is known for its nomadic tribes that hunted buffalo?
Great Plains
Mississippi River Valley
Pacific Northwest
Caribbean Islands
All Native Americans bought their tools from Home Depot and their food from WalMart.
True
False
A Native American is a person who _____________________.
travelled to Europe to start a new life
swims with large sea mammals
is descended from people who migrated from Asia during the last Ice Age
eats raw fish and nothing else
How did the first settlers to the Americas get there?
they flew
they swam
they walked
they rode on the backs of mammoths
