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Native American
Cultural Regions
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FILL-IN QUESTIONS
1. Southwest
Native Americans adapted to a desert
climate by building thick-walled adobe
homes.
2. Great Basin
Native Americans living here had limited
food and water.
3. Great Plains
Native Americans used all parts of the
buffalo.
4. Northwest Coast
Native Americans living here got most of
their food from the rivers and the sea.
5. Great Plains
This region features treeless, dense grasses.
6. Eastern Woodlands
This region features the most and largest
freshwater lakes.
7. California
Native Americans in this region created the
acorn basket to rinse acorns to eat, since the
oak trees in their environment provided
them.
8. Southeast
Native Americans living here had a variety of
geographical features, including swamps,
fertile coastal plains, river valleys, and
mountains.
ADD TO SG: 9. Plateau
The plateau features large rivers with
abundant fish in a climate with cold winters
and gentle summers.
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SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1. Migration Theories
The Land Bridge Theory suggests that early
people walked across the Bering land bridge.
The Pacific Rim Theory suggests early
people sailed to the Americas in skin boats
from the Pacific islands.
2. Adaptations
2. To survive in different areas, Native Americans had
to learn to adapt to their environments.
3. What is a cultural region?
3. A cultural region is an area in which a
group of people share a similar culture and
language.
4. How can we determine the cultural
region a Native American belongs to?
4. You can determine the cultural
region a NA belongs to by examining
their adaptations (food, clothes,
shelter, tools) to the environment,
cultural attributes, and location &
geography.
5. Explain two ways the Native
Americans in each of the following
regions adapted to their environments:
NORTHWEST COAST
They also built long boats to hunt seal, whale, and
salmon at sea.
The Northwest Coast region also had many trees, so
the people used wood to make their homes, baskets,
and clothing.
SOUTHWEST
The people of the Southwest build adobe homes to
protect them from the summer heat and winter cold.
To protect their bodies from the sun, they wore
clothes made of cotton that they grew, spun, and
wove into cloth.
GREAT PLAINS
The Plains people followed the buffalo, so they built
collapsible / moveable homes (tipis).
They used buffalo hides to make their shields,
clothing, bedding, homes, and many other things
they needed to survive on the Plains.
SOUTHEAST
The Southeast region had a long growing season, so
they relied on crops like corn, beans, squash,
pumpkins, and sunflowers for most of their food.
The people of the Southeast wore simple, short skirts
made from deerskin to stay cool.
The people living in swampy areas lived in raised up
homes to prevent flooding.
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VOCABULARY
1. Natural Resources
Natural Resources are useful
materials found in nature,
including water, vegetation,
animals, and minerals.
2. Cultural Region
A cultural region is an area in
which a group of people share a
similar culture and language.
3. Environment
An environment is all of the
physical surroundings in a place
including land, water, animals,
plants, and climate.
4. Culture
Culture is a groups way of life,
including beliefs, customs, food,
dwellings, and clothing.
5. Migrate
Migration is the act of moving from
one place and establish a home in a
new place.
ADD TO SG: 6. Artifact
At artifact is an object (ex: tools,
shards of pottery) characteristic of
an earlier time period or culture,
including objects found at an
archaeological excavation.
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READING COMPREHENSION
D. Native Americans had to
adapt to different
environments.
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Native Americans respected
the environment.
2. Which FACT can be found in this
passage?
B. unique and different
3. The word distinctive in this passage
means
C. developed culture based on
the environment.
4. This passage contains enough
information to convince readers that most
Native Americans