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Chapter 2 - Native Americans and Their Land Answer Key

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Vocabulary
#1 What does it mean to adjust to a new environment? Adapt
#2 What are stories that tell where a group of people came from? Origin stories
#3 What are large animals that are hunted for their flesh, skins, and other valuable body parts? Big game
#4 What is a PATH followed by a group of people when they move from one country/area of the world to another? Migration Routes
#5 Who are the PEOPLE that move from one country/area of the world to a new home in another country or area? Migrants
More Vocabulary
#1 What is wood that has washed up onto the shores of rivers or oceans? Driftwood
#2 What are female spirits of gods who control parts of the world? Goddesses
#3 What are places with different natural surroundings (land, water, air)? Environments
#4 What are changes in the way of life that allow people to survive in a particular environment? Adaptations
#5 What is a MOVEMENT of people from one country or area of the world to a new home in another country or area? Migration
The Inuit
#1 What is the other name for the Inuit people? Eskimos
#2 What environment did the Inuit live in? Arctic or Arctic Ice Fields
#3 Why did the Inuit make goggles? To help protect their eyes from the glare of the sun.
#4 The Inuit did not waste any part of the animals they captured. Give an example of how they used the animals. 1) Sewed skins together for blankets, clothes, tents 2) burned animal fat 3) Bones for dogsleds, tools, and tent frames 4) seal skins to create floats
#5 What three places did the Inuit live? Alaska, Canada, and Greenland
Environments
#1 This environment is sometimes referred to as an ice desert. Arctic ice field
#2 This environment receives almost no rain. Desert
#3 This environment can get a lot of rain or snow. Mountains
#4 This environment gets enough rain to support grass and small bushes. Grassland
#5 Which environments did the Native Americans choose to settle? Native Americans settled in all of the environments we talked about. Arctic ice fields, desert, mountains, and grasslands
More about the Native Americans
#1 Which is not a natural resource forest, deer, origin story or animal skin? origin story
#2 Give an example of a big game hunted by the Native Americans. Mammoth, Bison or Caribou
#3 What Native Americans group's origin story was told in our book? The Hopi
#4 What is the migration route that scientists believe most Native Americans followed? By land from northeast Asia, across a land bridge to North America and then into South America.
#5 When did the first Native Americas come to North America? During the last ice age.
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