MSA Unit 1 Vocab

Catching small prey, fishing, and collecting edible plants and seeds for a single family or for a community.

• Irrigation

• Hunter-Gather

• Environment

• Natural Resources

The skin of the animal that was removed after death and used for different types of materials, like clothing, weapons, and housing. 

• Longhouse

• Tanned

• Hides

• Precipitation

Water that is released from clouds, can be in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

• Agriculture

• Environment

• Precipitation

• Tanned

A flat area of land that rises above sea level at least on one side. One of the four major geographic landforms.

• Arid

• Natural Resources

• Mesa

• Plateau

A social or cultural group that shares ties to the land that their ancestors have lived on since the beginning. Native or original to the land.

• Indigenous

• Descendants

• Natural Resources

• Migration

The Spanish word for “people”, and was a settlement in the US that used clay to form flat roofed houses into a village. 

• Pueblo

• Arid

• Longhouse

• Adobe

To move from one place and establish a home within the new area or location. It can be within the same town, state or country, but it can also mean to move from one area to an entirely different location. 

• Indigenous

• Longhouse

• Hide

• Migration

Is a dwelling or house that is made by standing up large poles and wrapping in different types of materials and hides. 

• Tipi

• Adobe

• Longhouse

• Pueblo

Is a dwelling or house that is made by standing up large poles and wrapping in different types of materials and hides. 

An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language.

• Indigenous

• Cultural Region

• Descendants

• Hunter-Gather