Here are the vocabulary words for our Regions Unit (Unit 2/4):
- Origin stories - tales that explain how earth and its people came to be
- Migration routes - paths that Native Americans took to their new homes in North and South America
- Migrate - to move
- Environments - places where Native Americans settled that had water, land, animals, plants, and other natural resources
- Adapt - to use the natural resources to adjust to living in a particular environment
- Region - an area that shares common characteristics
- Culture - the learned behavior of people
- Climate - describes long-term trends in weather elements and atmospheric conditions
- Artifact - Objects made by groups of humans, ex: tools and clothes (help us understand the ways of life of the groups who made them)
- Adaptations - Changes in a way of life that allow people to survive in a particular environment
- Nomadic - Moving from place to place, often with changes in seasons