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Chapter 2 Social StudiesLesson 1: Early People

Lesson 2: The Eastern Woodlands

Lesson 3:The Plains

General Vocabulary

Lesson 5:The Northwest and the Arctic

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Final Jeopardy Question

Topic 1: 200• Question:• According to the land bridge theory, this was

the continent early people crossed into North America

• Answer• Asia

Topic 1: 400• Question:• Define the word migration.

• Answer• A movement of people

Topic 1: 600• Question:• The main reason that early peoples in the

Americas began to live in larger, more settled villages.

• Answer• They developed agriculture

Topic 1: 800• Question: • The early civilization in the Americas that

developed a counting system that included zero.

• Answer• The Mayan

Topic 1: 1000• Question: • This early civilization developed a 365 day

calendar.

• Answer• The Olmecs

Topic 2: 200• Question:• This was used to group Eastern Woodland

peoples as Iroquoian or Algonquian.• Answer• The language they spoke.

Topic 2: 400• Question:• This was the major purpose for the Iroquois

League.• Answer• To resolve conflicts among people and groups

Topic 2: 600• Question:• This was the most important natural resource

to the people in the Eastern Woodlands.• Answer• Wood

Topic 2: 800• Question: • This made it possible for the peoples of the

Eastern Woodlands to produce more goods.

• Answer• Division of labor

Topic 2: 1000• Question:• Name at least two ways people of the Eastern

Woodlands used trees. • Answer• Tools, canoes, build longhouses, weapons,

shelter, etc.

Topic 3: 200• Question:• Besides water, this was the most important

natural resource for the Plains Indians.• Answer• Buffalo

Topic 3: 400• Question:• A celebration to honor a cultural or religious

event.• Answer• ceremony

Topic 3: 600• Question:• Describe the type of land found in the plains.• Answer• Flat, dry, fields of grass

Topic 3: 800• Question:• This type of shelter is made from wooden

poles tied together at the top with animal skins stretched over the poles.

• Answer• Tepees

Topic 3: 1000• Question:• The purpose of a travois.• Answer• To carry belongings as the people moved to

follow the buffalo

Topic 4: 200• Question:• Objects made by early people• Answer• Artifacts

Topic 4: 400• Question:• Long, wooden buildings that could hold up to

50 people. • Answer• Longhouse

Topic 4: 600• Question:• The way the people of a state, region, or

country use their resources to meet their needs.

• Answer• Economy

Topic 4: 800• Question:• The Olmec _____________ had a strong

influence on the Mayan cities that developed later.

• Answer• Culture

Topic 4: 1000• Question:• The Pueblo people made their houses out of

this material• Answer• Adobe

Topic 5: 200• Question:• The reason the economy of the Native

Americans in the Arctic caused families to band together.

• Answer• When food was scarce, the family shared seal

meat.

Topic 5: 400• Question:• The most important natural resource to

people of the Northwest Coast• Answer• wood

Topic 5: 600• Question:• Name at least two ways the people of the

Northwest Coast used trees. • Answer• Tools, canoes, longhouses, weapons, shelter,

etc.

Topic 5: 800• Question:• Name one way the people of the Arctic

adapted their shelters because they didn’t have trees.

• Answer• Used blocks of ice to make igloos• Used sod to build a house• Lived in tents made of sealskins

Topic 5: 1000• Question:• The two types of fish that could be dried for

food and traded by the people of the Northwest Coast

• Answer• salmon and whale

Final Jeopardy: • Question:• Give the three features that are common to

most civilizations.• Answer• Ways of life• Religion• Learning