SS chapter three Flashcards
(10 cards)
Cultures
Ways of living in different groups of people. A group’s culture includes suck things as it’s language, beliefs, tools, types of homes, and ways of working and playing.
Nomadic
Moving from place to place, often with changes in the seasons. For example, some Native American groups were nomadic, while others stayed in the same place year-round.
Cultural regions
Areas of the world where people develop similar ways of life, or cultures. For example, Native Americans lived in several cultural regions. The groups within each region had similar cultures.
Artifacts
Objects made by groups of humans, such as tools and clothes. Artifacts help us understand the ways of life of the groups who made them.
Gorges
A narrow deep valley with steep sides.
Mesa
A flat-topped hill area with steep sides.
Environment
Places with different types of natural surroundings including land water air plants and animals for example grasslands and deserts are two very different person environments.
Natural resources
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest and cultural value.
Native
Indigenous peoples, also referred to as First peoples, First nations, Aboriginal peoples, Native peoples, Indigenous natives, or Autochthonous peoples
Map legend
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