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What fossils are common to Nevada?
Where can they be found?
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Gastropods- Snails
Cephalopods-Animals with tenticles: squids or octopuss
Pelecypods-Sea shells such as oysters or clams
They can be found in the Eastern part of Nevada |
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| Describe 3 things about the Great Basin. |
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Definition
Caves (Lehman)
National Park
Many small mountain ranges |
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| What are some things that affect Nevadas climates? |
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| Near the equator, lack of rain, place of extremes,deserts and high mountains. |
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| List 3 plants and 3 animals that are native to Nevada. |
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Plants:
- Sagebrush
- Bristle Cone Pine
- Joshua Tree
Animals
- Desert Bighorn Sheep
- Desert Tortise
- Wolves
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| Give some examples of Nevada animals that are protected by law. Why are they protected? |
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Desert tortise, wild horses
Protected due to being a symbol of history and they are endangered |
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| How have the people in the state adapted to their environment? |
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Definition
- Finding water
- Mining
- Creating jobs
- Agriculture
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| What is the significance of Spirit Cave Man? |
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People who lived in Nevada over 10,000 years ago
Can't be a Pauite or Anasazi because they lived over 12,000 years ago |
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| How and from where do scientists think people first came to Nevada? |
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From Asia-
Crossing over the North Pole and ice. Plates where closer together |
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| Compare the for eras of Nevada's Anasazi people and list some ways the lifestyles where alike and how they were different |
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Four Era's, Similarities and Differences
- 300-BC to 500 AD-Pit Houses, baskets and knives
- 500-700- pit houses, bow and arrows and traded for pottery
- 700-1100- grow corn, beans, squash using irrigation traded salt and turqoise
- 1100-1500- Domesticated dogs (pets) and turkeys harvested cotton
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| How did Mark Harrington contribute to our knowledge of ancient people? |
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| He uncovered and moved the lost cit of Nevada.Saved countless ancient artifacts. |
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| What are Nevadas five major modern Native American groups? |
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Definition
- Washoe(pronounced like Tahoe)
- Shoshone (legand of the 5 fingers)
- Northern Paiute(named according to food)
- Southern Paiute(creation story)
- Mohave (lived along the Colorado River)
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| Why are legends important and how were they passed down to the next generation? |
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| Passed down beliefs told as a way of communicating and teaching a lesson. |
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| Why did Spain send Columbus and future explorers to the New World? |
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Wanted raw materials to make more goods to sell and wanted more of a market to spread the Catholic religion to.
People in Asia |
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| What affect did the new explorers have on the Native Americans? |
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Curiosit and excitment (fear)
Anger and resentment |
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Why did Spain use the Mission System?
How did it function? |
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To teach religion and a trade (farming)
Hoped for loyalty |
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In comparing Smith and Ogden, how were their motivations alike and how were they different.
What did they accomplish? |
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Both were trappers and made money from the sale of furs.
Smith
- Prejudice against Native Americans and Mexicans. He died young
Ogden
- Married a Native American woman. He lived long
They crossed Nevada and Utah
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| What were some reasons immigrant parties came to the West? |
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Gold
Freedom of religion
Wealth Opportunities
Adventure |
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What problem did adding new territories create for the United States?
What was the attempt to solve these issues?
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Slave and free stated the balance of power
Compromise of 1850 in California is a free return runaway slaves |
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| PETROGLYPHS ARE A ROCK ART THAT IS CUT INTO THE SURFACE |
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| PICTOGRAPHS ARE DRAWN ONTO THE SURFACE |
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| WHILE THEY WERE BUILDING THE HOOVER DAM, ARCHAEOLOGISTS WERE DIGGING FOR DAYS FOR ARTIFACTS AT PUEBLO GRANDE. THEY KNEW WHEN THE DAM WAS THE BUILT, THE LOST CITY WOULD REALLY BE A LOST CITY. SO MARK HARRINGTON TOOK ALL THE STUFF HE COULD OVER TO OVERTON AND MADE MODELS OF THE BUILDINGS. NOW IT IS A MUSEUM IN OVERTON, NV. |
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MARK HARRINGTON ONLY SPENT A FEW YEARS IN NEVADA, HOWEVER HE DISCOVERED ALOT ABOUT SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS OF NEVADA LIFE.
HE WAS BORN IN MICHIGAN
WHEN HE WAS A CHILD HE BACAME VERY INTERSTED IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AND LOVED NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES ABOUT INDIAN LIFE.
WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER HE MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY AND WORKED IN A MUSEUM AS A TRAINEE IN ARCHEOLOGY. FOR HIS JOB, HE HAD TO GATHER ARTIFACTS TO FILL THE MUSEUM OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS THERE. THE ARTIFACTS COLLECTED INCLUDED SOME COLLECTED FROM LOVE LOCK CAVE IN NEVADA.HE TRAVELED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO A CAVE TO FIND MORE ARTIFACTS AND HE DID. HE FOUND DUCK DECOYS AND STUFF THAT IS STILL BEING STUDUED TODAY. |
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| WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT EARLY PICTURES OF INDIANS? |
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| THE INDIANS WOULD PUT ON MORE CLOTHES TO MAKE THEM LOOK BIGGER IN EARLY PICTURES |
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| WILLIAM ASHLEY INVENTED THE RENDEVOUS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD WORK BETTER THAN HAVING A FORT WHERE HIS MEN HAVE TO RETURN TO GET SUPPLIES AND SELL FURS. INSTEAD THEY AGREED TO MEET SOMEWHERE IN THE VICINITY OF WHERE THEY HAD BEEN WORKING. |
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| John was sent by the government to map and name landmarks that have only been decribed. |
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| Christopher's last name Carson is all over Nevada like are state capital "Carson City" and the "Carson River". Kit was 16 when he left home to work as a trapper and a guide. Even thought he couldn't read nor write witch could hurt his chances of being a leader. |
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| Sarah was a Paiute who grew up at the time where white people where exploring and settling in the west. Sarah and her sister went to California to go to school to settle their fathers dream. less then a month later the got kicked out of the school because of the parent of the white children where complaining. |
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| the Donner party fell behind when moving to California so they used a book on how to reach california. my the time they reached the mountains it was winter so it was hard to get up the mountains. some people had to eat their animals and other dead people. almost half of 87 people died. |
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