Northwest Coast

An object made by early people: 

• migration
• artifact
• surplus
• scarcity

Migration is:

• movement from one region to another
• not having enough of a resource
• an object made by early people
• the absolute location

Resources of the Northwest Coast: 

• forests
• rivers
• Pacific Ocean
• all of these are resources of the NW Coast

Identify one way Northwest Native Americans used trees meet their needs? 

• Water Source
• Surplus of salmon
• Built houses and dugouts
• Travel/trade

How did Northwest Coast Natives use rivers to meet their needs? 

• Built wooden shelters
• Built tall, wooden totem poles
• Food source, water source, travel/trade
• Used wooden baskets to gather roots, nuts, and berries

How did Northwest Coast Natives use the ocean to meet their needs? 

• Water source 
• Food Source (whales, shellfish, etc.)
• Wood for building houses
• Built totem poles

Which is NOT a way that Northwest Coast Natives used trees to meet their needs? 

• Used wood to build dugout canoes
• Wood for salmon traps
• Water source (for drinking and watering crops) 
• Made wooden baskets to help gather

Natives of the Northwest Coast had a surplus of: 

• buffalo
• trees
• salmon
• trees and salmon

During the last part of the ice age, the Bering Sea DID NOT separate Asia and North America.  What did? 

• a road
• a land bridge 
• a glacier
• artifacts

Native Americans of the Northwest Coast had access to the: 

• Pacific Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Northwest Ocean