| A | B |
| Inuit | live in an arctic climate |
| Iroquois | area with heavy forests |
| Lakota | lived in area with dry grasslands |
| Pueblo | inhabited a desert area bordering cliffs and mountains |
| Kwakiutl | lived in a rainy, mild climate |
| dispersed | to break up or scatter in various directions |
| environments | the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, plants and animals |
| to reside in; to occupy as a home | inhabited |
| the average weather conditions over a period of years | climate |
| everything humans need to survive | basic needs |
| harvesting | gathering of crops |
| adobe | sun-dried bricks used to build certain American Indian homes |
| nomad | people who move from place to place, usually in search of food |
| archaeologists | people who study human behavior and culture through the recovery and analysis of artifacts |
| resources that come directly from nature | natural resources |
| human resources | a tribal member who sews animal skins into cloth would be providing: |
| canoe | an example of a capital resource |