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OSWALD

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California Indians used fire to manage their environment for all of the following purposes except
 
  a. to destroy plants on which enemy tribes relied.
  b. to clear space for grasses to grow and game to forage.
  c. to create a layer of ash to nourish the seed-bearing grasses of the next season.
  d. to drive game into traps.

Question 2

Acorns were an important food source for most California Indians with one significant problem:
 
  a. They contain a poison, tannic acid, which must be leached out using a time-consuming process.
  b. Each oak tree produces only a few pounds of acorns, so harvesting enough takes a long time.
  c. Oak trees grow in only a few parts of California, so Indians who lived in other regions had to trade for acorns.
  d. Acorns were plentiful but not highly nutritious.



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Answer to Question 1

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OSWALD

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Reply 2 on: Jul 4, 2018
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