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the study of Earth's features, such as rivers and deserts.
Geography
the recovery and study of physical evidence from the past.
Archaeology
the skills and methods people use to make maps.
Cartography
the study of past events.
History
one of the seven large landmasses of Earth - North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
Continent
an object made by a human such as tools, pottery, or jewelry.
Artifact
is a way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable.
Projection
a person who studies and interprets, or explains the importance of, the past.
Historian
a feature of Earth's land surface.
the process of digging up historically significant objects for the purpose of studying them.
Excavation
half of the Earth
Hemisphere
a document or artifact created during a particular historical period
Primary Source
the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.
Weather
the study of humans and human culture.
Anthropology
imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator.
includes the stories a culture has passed from generation to generation
Oral History
the typical weather conditions at a particular place over a period of time.
Climate
a way of life shared by a group of people.
Culture
imaginary lines that go around the Earth through the north and south poles.
Longitude
a work produced about a historical event by someone who was not actually there
Secondary Source