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Grade 5

Social Studies

Unit 2:

Study Guide

Name: _____________________________ Date: ________________

Social Studies Study Guide on Native Americans

Test Date

Oct 29, 2009

1.                  The first people to live on the continent of North America were from what continent?

2.                  The first people to live on the continent of North America got here by what method?

3.                  How were the six major Indian groups or cultures in North America grouped together ?

Complete the chart filling in the words below into the correct space for shelter, geography, climate and way of life for each of the six major cultures we studied.

Word Bank

CLIMATE WORDS: warm summer and snowy winter,    windy flat lands,         hot and dry, mild climate with lots of rain,     very cold,        mountainous so no farming

SHELTER WORDS: adobe homes, wooden plank houses, tepees, wooden longhouses, igloos, temporary shelters

WAY OF LIFE WORDS: followed the buffalo, whaled and fished, ate and gathered seeds and acorns, always moving in search of food, had a chief to lead, hunted and farmed and gathered

GEOGRAPHY: on Pacific Coast, in the plains at the center of the United States, in the forests of the Northeast United States, in the deserts of the United States, in Canada, in California reaching to the Rocky Mountains

Indian Group

Climate

Shelter

Way of Life

Eastern Woodlands

Plains

Southwest

Northwest Coast

Study Guide

1. Columbian Exchange = Exchange of products & ideas between ______ and ________Worlds

2. The Columbian Exchange �It was named after me, of course, since I started the exchange of goods between the Old and New Worlds!� Who am I?______________________________

3. Is this the Old or New World? ______________________

4. Is this the Old or New World? ______________________

5. Name 3 products that went FROM THE NEW WORLD to the Old World due to the Columbian exchange?

6. Name 3 things went FROM THE OLD WORLD to the New World due

to the Columbian exchange?

7. The goods/ideas traded in the Columbian exchange

changed the lives people in the places to which they were taken.

The Columbian Exchange led to: C.R.O.P.S.

Reflection:

How were people�s lives different in the New World because of the Columbian Exchange? How were they different in the Old World?

Native American Blog

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/navigation/native_american_chart.htm