Geography Terms
These imaginary lines wrap around the world and are parallel to the Equator.
What are latitude lines?
The mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that made the land ideal for farming.
What is silt?
The time before there was writing.
What is prehistory?
Referring to a countryside area.
What is rural?
The number of daughters Mrs. Dannefer has.
What is three?
This type of source is someone that took part in or witnessed an event.
What is a Primary Source?
One of the two rivers that the Fertile Crescent sets between.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates River?
A relative that lived in the past.
What is an ancestor?
A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
The sport that Mrs. Dannefer coaches.
What is High School Track (throwing)?
On a map, this direction is typically at the top.
What is north?
The world’s fist system of writing in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
This was built in Jericho that proved there was a government.
What is a wall?
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
The country that Mrs. Dannefer really wants to travel to?
Where is Greece?
This is the pattern of weather monitoring in a certain area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
The modern name of the “Ice Man” that was found by hikers in the mountains of Italy.
Who is Otzi?
A strip of land connecting two continents.
What is a land bridge?
Where is Oklahoma?
This is natural features of the land’s surface (example: mountains, valleys, plains, rivers).
The pyramid-shaped worship center for the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
Another name for the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
A huge stone monument.
What is a megalith?
One of the names of Mrs. Dannefer’s dogs.
Who is Penny, Bandit or Winston?