pate powerpoint
TRANSCRIPT
America In The Beginning
Who were the first Americans?
How and why did they come here?
30,000 years ago During a period of low temperatures
called an ___iceage____
The world was covered in _____glaciers____
or sheets of ice.
This caused ocean levels to __drop______ and expose
___land_______.In the Bering straight a _______land bridge________ appeared connecting _______________& _______________
This land bridge is known as
_beringe_________.
Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or ________bridge___ to the America's.
Hunter's in Asia who moved from place to place to
find food or ___nomads__________ followed the mammoths and spread out or
_______migrated____ to the America's
The ice age ended
____________ up glaciers
causing water levels to
____rise______ covering up
the ____land_____
___bridge_____.Some animals died off like ______mammoth______.
Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives needed
to adjust or _adapt________ to
every thing in the new
surrounds that made up each of
their own ______enviroment_
_in order to ____survive______.
What happened when they came to America?
How did they meet their new needs?
America In The Beginning
America In The Beginning
Living in many different parts of the Americas the Natives used the different natural ______resources_____ in their own different environments for food, clothing, and shelter.
Different groups in different
environments developed their own beliefs and ways of life or
__________culture_____. Groups in the
same environments
adapted similar life styles, and
language creating __cultural__
________region_.
Many Native American have these things in common.1. Nature has a ____spirit____.2. No one can own ______land____.4. Only use what is _____needed_____.5. _______trade___ was important to most societies
How did Native Americans adjust to the new environments?
What did they have in common?
8 Cultural Regions
North West Coast
Plateau
Great Basin
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
South East
California
Eastern Woodlands
8 Cultural Regions
North West Coast Weather:long cold winterscool summersheavy rainfall
Natural Resources:ocean/beachesthick forests of fir, spruce, and cedarrugged mountainsseafood/salmondeer, moose, bear, elk, beaver, mountain goats
California Weather: rainy wintershot dry summers
Natural Resources:ocean/coastfoothillsvalley'sdesertsmountainsacorns, oak treesgrass, and plantsredwood trees
salmon/seafood/shellfishdeer, rabbits, ducks, roots berries, pine nuts
Great Basin Weather:little rainhot during the day cold at nightNatural Resources:
mostly dessertlow areas surrounded by mountains at the edgeswith valleys that had seasonal lakes and streams
plants that need little water likegrasses, sagebrush, pinon trees, at the outer edges pine trees, and willow
small animals rabbits, lizards, grasshoppers, snakes sometimes ducks , duck eggs during certain seasons seeds,berries pine nuts, roots, cattail
Plateau Weather:long cold winterscomfortable summers
Natural Resources:mountains with dense forests in areasflatter in the center with drier grass landsrivers
driftwood, mud, dirt,grass and sage brushfish, antelope, deer, seedsonions, carrots, camas roots, salmon
Great Plains Weather:cold winters hot summers
Natural Resources:mountains surrounding edgestreeless grasslands in the centereast more water and softer soilwest drier dense grass
Buffalo and smaller animals
South West
Weather:high temperatureslittle rain dry/arid
Natural Resources:mountains, canyonsdesserts, flat top mesasrivers, little water
clay, brightly colored plants, cottoncorn, beans, squash, peppers, rabbits
Eastern Woodlands
Weather:snowy winters , rain
Natural Resources:rivers, ocean/coastlots of lakes and streams
Forests, plants, maple trees, elm,
deer, bears, beavers, birds, fishcorn, sunflowers, tobacco, vegetables,nuts, berries
South East
Weather:long warm humid summersmild winters
Natural Resources:rivers, ocean/coastFertile coastal plainsmountains, swamps
Trees, clay, shells, corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers, sweet potatoessquirrels, rabbits, turkeys, deer, alligators, turtles,wild rice, persimmons