World Geography
The imaginary line at 0° latitude that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Who really discovered America?
Who is Native American peoples?
Name 3 ancient kingdoms or civilizations.
What is Sumer / Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang Dynasty, Ancient Greece, and Rome?
Name a physical science specialists.
What is Botanist, Ichthyologist, Paleontologist, Seismologist, Limnologist?
Why do we need archaeologists to study prehistory before written records?
What are Artifacts, ruins, and physical material remains?
The ocean located between the Americas to the west and Europe/Africa to the east.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Why is saying Columbus "discovered" America inaccurate?
What are indigenous civilizations?
Name 5 world religions
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism?
Name a social science specialist.
What is a Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Demographer, Economist, Geographer, Linguist, Sociologist?
What source is created during an event (diaries, original photos)?
What is a Primary Source?
What are the names of the continents on a world map?
What is North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?
Who was the Norse Viking explorer who reached North America around 1000 CE?
Who is Leif Erikson?
Which kingdom built pyramids along the Nile River?
What is Ancient Egypt?
What specialist digs up ancient artifacts and ruins?
What is an Archaeologist?
What source is written later by someone who was not there (textbooks)?
What is a Secondary Source?
The continent directly south of Europe that hosted early river valley civilizations like Ancient Egypt.
What is Africa?
What historical skill is used when looking at multiple sides of an event?
What is Analyzing Point of View / Perspective?
What region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is the "Cradle of Civilization"?
What is Mesopotamia?
What expert studies money, trade, and goods?
What is an Economist?
How does studying geography, cultures, and scientific experts help us study history?
What is these disciplines allow us to reconstruct past events accurately and understand how history shapes our modern world?
What land bridge did early humans cross into North America?
What is Beringia / the Bering Land Bridge?
What do we call a one-sided opinion that influences history?
What is Bias?
What monotheistic religion uses the Torah?
What is Judaism?
What expert studies birds and their flight patterns?
What is an Ornithologist?
What term describes human-made objects from the past?
What are Artifacts?