5 Strands of Geography
This Stand of Social Studies is the study of the earths features.
What is Geography?
This continent is known as the "cradle of humanity" because the oldest human fossils have been found there.
What is Africa?
This term is the English translation of the Greek term Mesopotamia.
What is "Land between two rivers"?
These are the 7 continents
What are Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
This line separates the eastern and western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This Strand of Geography is the way people live and what they believe.
What is Culture?
Early humans who moved from place to place, following herds and searching for nuts and berries, are known by this two-word term.
What are Hunters and Gatherers?
The rich, fertile soil of Mesopotamia and the surrounding area earned it the nickname.
What is "The Fertile Crescent"
These are the 5 oceans.
What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Artic?
This land feature is surrounded by water on three sides e.g. Florida.
What is a Peninsula?
What is History?
A person who studies the remains of early humans by digging up and examining their artifacts is called this.
What is an archeologist?
These two rivers flow through the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?
These lines run horizontal across the earth.
What is Latitude?
What caused early humans to migrate out of Africa?
This strand of Social Studies involves the way rules are created and the way people work together in society.
What is Government and Civics?
This term in used to describe people who move from place to place following resources.
What is a nomad?
The Sumerians invented this wedge-shaped writing system, which was pressed into wet clay tablets with a reed stylus
What is Cuneiform?
These lines run vertically across the globe
What is Longitude?
Early Humans did this to leave notes and express themselves.
What are cave paintings?
This Strand of Social Studies is the way people get the things they need.
What is Economics?
This is a general term for any portable object made or used by humans, such as a tool, pottery, or piece of jewelry.
What is an artifact?
This famous king of Babylon created a set of 282 laws that included the phrase "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."
Who is King Hammurabi?
What is the line that separates the North and South Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is the country today where Mesopotamia once thrived.
What is Iraq?