Land & Peoples of North America

The Pacific Coast is near what ocean?

• Indian

• Artic

• Pacific

• Atlantic

A _____ is made from long logs & carved & decorated to represent people and animals, made from totems.

• totem pole

• hogan

• potlatch

• chief

people that lived by hunting animals and gathering plants

• farmer

• hunter-gatherer

• hunter

• Native American

Ancient writing that uses pictures for words

• alphabet

• pictures

• hieroglyphs

• cursive

A spoken record, such as passing down stories from one generation to the next is known as ________.

• oral history

• talking

• languages

• textbook

A flat topped hill with steep sides

• mountain

• island

• mesa

• hill

flat, grassy stretches of land

• field

• prairie

• mountains

• mesa

to take and gather fully grown crops such as wheat and corn for use

• harvest

• combine

• slash-and-burn

• hieroglyph

method of clearing land for faming by cutting and burning trees

• tilling

• harvest

• slash-and-burn

• oral history

The region near Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah are part of what region?

• Midwest

• Southwest

• South

• West