Native Americans Study Session

What is a people’s way of life referred to as?
1. artifacts
2. culture
3. nomads
4. origin stories
What are objects made by Native Americans used to help them adapt to their environment?
1. artifacts
2. cultures
3. nomads
4. origin stories
What are people who move from place to place during different seasons to find available food called?
1. artifacts
2. cultures
3. nomads
4. origin stories
What are Native American tales called that explain how Earth and its people came to be?
1. mesas
2. theories
3. nomads
4. origin stories
Which of the following best describes what most scientists believe to be the migration route of most Native Americans?
1. by land from northeast Asia, across a land bridge to North America, and then into South America
2. by sea across the Pacific Ocean to North and South America
3. by land from South America and then into North America
4. by sea from Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, and into North and South America
Which of these cultural regions had mesas, canyons, and deserts, and received little rain resulting in having few trees and other plants?
1. Northwest Coast
2. Plateau
3. Southeast
4. Southwest
Which of these cultural regions had four distinct seasons and was crisscrossed by streams & rivers that wound through forests of oak, maple, & birch trees which were home to deer, beavers, and turkey?
1. California-Intermountain
2. Eastern Woodlands
3. Great Plains
4. Plateau
Which of the following is not a natural resource?
1. forest
2. deer and rabbits
3. origin story
4. animal skins
In which of these environments did Native Americans choose to settle?
1. Arctic Ice Fields
2. mountains
3. deserts
4. Native Americans settled in all these environments.
Which of these items is LEAST likely to have been made by the Inuit as they adapted to their environment?
1. a basket woven from grass
2. snow goggles made from bone
3. an igloo built out of ice and snow
4. a sealskin float
Which of these cultural regions included swamps that were home to animals like deer, alligators, snakes, and plants like tall palm trees and cypress trees?
1. Northwest Coast
2. Plateau
3. Southeast
4. Southwest
Which of these cultural regions had such a large amount of salmon that the Native Americans used cedar bark to construct fish traps to catch these fish?
1. Northwest Coast
2. Plateau
3. Southeast
4. Southwest
Which cultural region is most, if not all, of Kentucky located in?
1. Eastern Woodlands
2. Great Plains
3. Plateau
4. Southeast
Which environment had the most natural resources for Native Americans to use to adapt to their surroundings?
1. Arctic Ice Fields
2. mountains
3. deserts
4. grasslands
What animal did Native Americans use for their weapons, tools, shelter, and food in the Great Plains?
1. buffalo
2. deer
3. rabbit
4. turkey
Which of these huge cultural regions had hot summers and cold winters, with few trees, but large grasslands that were home to many grazing animals like deer, antelope, and buffalo?
1. California-Intermountain
2. Eastern Woodlands
3. Great Plains
4. Plateau
Why did Pueblo family members store a surplus of food?
1. to barter with wandering tribes
2. to eat when there was a drought
3. to feed the kachina dancers
4. to survive the long, cold winters
What was the kind of sandy clay that was dried into bricks and used for building called?
1. adobe
2. atlatl
3. clan
4. band
What do we call scientists who study the cultures of people who lived long ago?
1. nomads
2. tribes
3. clans
4. archaelogists
What term means to use the natural resources to adjust to living in a particular environment?
1. adapt
2. cultural regions
3. environments
4. migration routes
What are paths that Native Americans took to their new homes in North and South America?
1. adapt
2. cultural regions
3. environments
4. migration routes
What is the term for places where Native Americans settled that had water, land, animals, plants, and other natural resources?
1. adapt
2. cultural regions
3. environments
4. migration routes
What is a loose group of governments called?
1. confederation
2. alliance
3. triad
4. world
Why is the Olmec culture known as the "mother civilization" of the Americas?
1. Olmec farmers were the first farmers to grow corn in the Americas.
2. The Olmecs built large earthwork mounds in their cities.
3. The Olmecs were the first people to live in the Americas.
4. Olmec culture influenced the cultures of so many later groups.
Which cultural region contained a wide variety of environments while extending from the Pacific Coast over the Sierra Nevada Mountains and into the Great Basin?
1. California-Intermountain
2. Eastern Woodlands
3. Northwest Coast
4. Plateau
How did the Iroquois stop the fighting among neighboring tribes?
1. They moved to the southwestern part of North America.
2. They held a potlatch ceremony and invited all the tribes.
3. They formed a confederation.
4. They invited all the tribes to play a game of Little War.
What is the name for an adobe building that has many rooms built on top of and next to one another?
1. hogan
2. pueblo
3. pit house
4. kiva
Beringia is the name of the land bridge that once connected what two continents?
1. North America & Turtle Island
2. Alaska & California
3. Asia & North America
4. Asia & Siberia
Why did the oceans become shallower during the last Ice Age?
1. The seawater evaporated.
2. The ice in the glaciers started to melt.
3. It did not rain for many years.
4. Much of the water was locked up in glaciers.
What was the most important crop grown in the Americas?
1. corn
2. wheat
3. squash
4. beans

Native Americans Study Session

Test Prep