Study Guide for American Indians Unit Test
1. Archaeologists study human behavior and culture through the recovery and analysis of
____________________.
2. ____________________ are not in agreement as to when and how people entered the Western
Hemisphere.
3. Cactus Hill is located on the ____________________ River in southern ____________________.
4. Evidence that humans lived at ____________________ ____________________ as early as 15,000 years
ago makes it one of the oldest sites in North America.
5. What is an artifact? ________________________________________________________________________
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6. American Indians lived in ____________________ areas of North America.
7. Members of these tribes live in their ____________________ and in many areas of North America
today.
8. In the past, American Indians ____________________, hunted, and ____________________ crops for
food.
9. Clothing was made from ____________________ skins and ____________________.
10. Their shelters were made of resources found in their ____________________.
Some examples of the resources they used to make shelters are: (Name the tribe that most likely
used that resource.)___________________________________________________________________________
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11. What is a natural resource? __________________________________________________________________
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12. What are some examples of natural resources Native Americans used? _________________________
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13. What is a human resource? ___________________________________________________________________
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14. What are some examples of human resources Native Americans had? ________________________
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15. What is a capital resource? ___________________________________________________________________
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16. What are some examples of capital resources Native Americans used? _________________________
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17. How did weather and climate affect the way American Indian groups built their homes? ________
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18. Each of the five tribes used different types of houses, what were they called and made out of?
Iroquois: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Inuit: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Pueblo: __________________________________________________________________________________________
Sioux: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Kwakiutl: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions:
Match each American Indian group with the climate and physical characteristics of their homeland.
______ Inuit
______ Kwakiutl
______ Lakota
______ Pueblo
______ Iroquois
A Lived on the Great Plains' open grasslands with relatively dry weather
B Lived in the heavily forested Eastern Woodland, with a mild climate and four
distinct seasons
C Inhabited flat and hilly land covered by snow and ice with temperatures below
freezing for most of the year
D Lived among the high, rocky cliff of the Pacific Northwest coast, with a rainy,
mild climate
E Lived in the cliffs and mountains of the desert areas of the Southwest with hot, dry
weather
Color in the map to
represent where each
American Indian group
inhabited.
Create the key below:
Inuit
Kwakiutl
Lakota/ Sioux
Pueblo
Iroquois
SOL 1.2b North American Regions
Identify, locate, and correctly label each of the following terms below on a map.
Appalachian Mountains
Basin and Range
Canadian Shield
Coastal Range
Great Plains
SOL 1.2B Use the choices below to answer the following questions. You will use two answers twice.
(A) Coastal Range
(B) Appalachian Mountains
(C) Great Plains
(D) Canadian Shield
(E) Basin and Range
____ 1. Rugged mountains located along the Pacific Coast that stretch from Canada to
California.
____ 3. Wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape.
____ 4. Flat lands that gradually increase in elevation westward; grasslands
____ 5. Old, eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in North America)
____ 9. Contains Death Valley and is east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains.