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 ____ice age______ 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 ___sibera or asia& americas______ ______ ______________ _ This land bridge is known as __Biringia____ ____. Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or _migrated_____ _____ to the America's.
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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 ____ice age______
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
___sibera or asia&
americas____________
_______________
This land bridge is known as
__Biringia________.
Animals like mammoths crossed the bridge or _migrated__________ 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
____migrate_______ to the
America's
The ice age ended __coverd__________ up
glaciers causing water levels to _rise_________
covering up the
__land bridge_______
________.Some animals died off like mammals____________.
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?
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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 and belive in many gods_____.2. No one can own __land________.4. Only use what is __needed (no waste)________.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
California
Plateau
Great Basin
South West
Great Plains
Eastern Woodlands
South East
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
1F
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
1A
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