Civilizations of the Americas

Match the following: Types of homes

• wigwam

• portable, cone-shaped home made by Native Americans who lived on the Plains

• longhouse

• a home built by Northeastern Native Americans, made with a round wooden frame that was covered with bark or reed mats

• teepee

• domed house made from blocks of snow by Native Americans who lived in the Arctic

• igloo

• rectangular type of home built by Northeastern Native Americans, made from wood and bark or mats made from reeds

Match the following

• ayllu

• feasting and gift-giving ceremony in northwestern Native American culture

• artifact

• record-keeping device made of knotted strings, used by the Incas

• mita system

• object made by a human being

• quipu

• in Incan society, a group of related families that pooled its resources to meet people's needs

• potlatch

• Incan method of payment of taxes with labor

an artificial island built by the Aztecs

• terraces

• chinampas

• slash-and-burn

• crop rotation

a wall to hold back water

• aquaduct

• dam

• dike

• levee

A long period of extremely dry weather is called a ​ (a)  

• drought
• monsoon
• desiccation

a strip of level land cut into a slope that is planted with crops

• chinampas

• slash-and-burn

• terraces

A bowl-shaped are is called a (a)   ​

• basin
• crater
• valley

They farmed on chinampas, floating fields made with lake mud

• Aztec
• Inca
• Maya
• Olmec

How did the Aztecs adapt to their environment to practice agriculture?

• By building dams and irrigation systems

• By creating floating gardens called chinampas

• By practicing slash-and-burn agriculture

• By developing drought-resistant crops

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept

The Maya used dome-shaped ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)   to follow the paths of the sun, moon, and stars.

• observatories
• aqueducts
• chinampas
• terraces