Social Studies Ch 3

Question 1

means to change the way you live to fit a new place

Answer 1

adapt

Question 2

the way of life, or beliefs, ideas, and language of a group of people

Answer 2

culture

Question 3

formal act or event that celebrates a people’s beliefs

Answer 3

ceremony

Question 4

means to exchange things with someone else

Answer 4

trade

Question 5

means to trade one item for another

Answer 5

barter

Question 6

is the way that people choose to make, buy, sell, and use things

Answer 6

economy

Question 7

gently rolling land at the base of mountains

Answer 7

piedmont

Question 8

record of past events

Answer 8

history

Question 9

culture’s special way of doing something

Answer 9

tradition

Question 10

organization that makes laws and keeps order

Answer 10

government

Question 11

basic laws and ideas that a government and its people follow

Answer 11

constitution

Question 12

which American Indian community lived where there was little rain

Answer 12

Navajo

Question 13

which Indian community built their houses partly underground

Answer 13

Yurok

Question 14

which Indian community depended on forests, rivers, and rich soil to survive

Answer 14

Cherokee

Question 15

which man invented a way to write the Cherokee language

Answer 15

Sequoyah

Question 16

which Indian community built long, narrow houses

Answer 16

Haudenosaunee

Question 17

what kind of shell was used by the Yurok community as money

Answer 17

tooth

Question 18

what was the Navajo’s special ceremony

Answer 18

sand painting

Question 19

what is the name of the Cherokee’s first women leader

Answer 19

Wima Mankiller

Question 20

how was the Haudenosaunee Constitution made first

Answer 20

orally spoken