California Indians Quiz

The most important food of California Indians

• Acorns

• Corn

• Wheat

• Rice

To change to fit a place

• Adapt

• Ignore

• Resist

• Neglect

A person who excavates land and studies artifacts

• Archaeologist

• Geologist

• Biologist

• Astronomer

Tools and other objects made by people in the past and used for a practical purpose

• Artifacts

• Fossils

• Manuscripts

• Relics

Animal skins

• Hides

• Furs

• Pelts

• Leather

The use of canals, ditches, and pipes to bring water to dry land.

• Irrigation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Stories told from one generation to the next

• Legends

• Movies

• Books

• Historical documents

A religious leader who was said to have supernatural powers that could be used for healing as well as controlling the weather and the crops

• Shaman

• Priest

• Monk

• Rabbi

A place where people sat around heated stones after which they would jump into cool water

• Sweat house

• Sauna

• Hot spring

• Steam room

Canoes used by the tribes who lived along the Coast

• Tomols

• Kayaks

• Pirogues

• Coracles