What did the Huron-Wendat and Iroquois do for survival?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: The Huron-Wendat of the Great Lakes region, like the Iroquois, were farmers and hunters. The combination the test wants is therefore both farming and hunting — not one in isolation.

The wider Aboriginal economic landscape sits in the same passage. Discover Canada writes: "The native people lived off the land, some by hunting and gathering, others by raising crops." Then the guide gives concrete examples for each style. The Huron-Wendat and Iroquois are the named farming-and-hunting peoples; the Cree and Dene of the Northwest are described as "hunter-gatherers"; the Sioux are "nomadic, following the bison (buffalo) herd"; and the Inuit "lived off Arctic wildlife."

The geography fits the answer. Discover Canada places the Huron-Wendat "of the Great Lakes region" — fertile terrain that supported both crop-raising and woodland hunting. Pairing them with the Iroquois in a single sentence is the guide's way of indicating that the two peoples shared a similar mixed-economy way of life: farming for staples like crops, supplemented by hunting.

This passage is part of a longer Discover Canada reminder of who lived in the territory before European contact. The guide closes the wider section with a sober note: "Warfare was common among Aboriginal groups as they competed for land, resources and prestige." So the farming-and-hunting Huron-Wendat and Iroquois were one of several distinct ways of life across what is now Canada — alongside the hunter-gatherer Cree and Dene, the nomadic Sioux, the Inuit of the Arctic, and the West Coast natives who preserved fish.

The question is testing whether new citizens have noticed the precise phrase Discover Canada uses for the Huron-Wendat and Iroquois. The guide says they "were farmers and hunters" — both, in the same sentence. The right test answer combines the two activities.

The wrong answer choices each pick only one half or invent a different activity. Discover Canada does not say the Huron-Wendat and Iroquois only fished and traded, only herded animals, or only raised crops. The guide attaches both farming and hunting to them — and to the Great Lakes region they lived in.