5th grade TCI Social Studies: Lesson 2

adaptation

• an environment where people live

• a change or adjustment in a way of life for survival

• a belief

• migration

kiva

• an oven that was used by American Indians

• a home where the leader of a tribe lived

• a circular area where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonied

• an area where American Indian children played

origin story

• a story that explains where ancestors of tribe members came from

• a story that explains how to survive in an environment

• a story that is told as a bedtime story for children

• a story that explains how to build useful tools

migration

• the movement of the Earth's plates

• the movement of animals within an area

• the settlement of people

• the movement of people from one area of the world to a new place in another area

environment

• everything in the world

• all the vegetation in the region

• everything that surrounds a given area

• all the people in an area

natural resource

• something from nature that is useful to people

• something from nature that is harmful to people

• something not found in nature that is useful to people

• something that is harmful to nature

pictograph

• a picture of a graph

• a graph of a picture

• a picture that is drawn on a graph

• a picture that represents an important event or idea

primary source

• the first piece of information

• the record of an event by a person who was not involved

• a biography of a person's life

• a record of an event created by someone who was there

secondary source

• the second event that happened

• a record of an event created by a person who was there

• a record of an event created by a person who was not there

• a second telling of a story