Lessons 1 & 2
Prehistoric Times
Years before people used written language
Store
keep something so it can be used later
Cities
Large towns
Lake
A body of water surrounded by land
Ocean
A large body of water
Fragile
easily broken
Places where people live permanently
Transportation
How people travel and move goods from place to place
Mountain
High rocky land with steep slopes
Equater
Imaginary line around the middle of earth
Extinct
No longer alive
Domestication
Raising animals to help humans
Civilization
Advanced, organized societies
Peninsula
Land surrounded by water on three sides
Continent
One of 7 very large areas of land on earth
Permanent
planned to last a long time
Population
Total number of people
Livestock
Farm animals; often used for food or trading
River
A large stream of water that runs through land to another body of water
Hemisphere
Line that divides earth into halves
Stone Age
Period when people made tools from stone
Villages
Places where as many as several hundred early people lived permanently
Irrigation
bringing water to crops
Ice Cap
Ice and snow that covers land year round
Prime Meridian
Line of longitude that divide=s earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres