Six Essential Elements
General Geography
Vocab
Scientist
Mixed
1200

This element of geography has to do with how humans interact with the environment

What is Environment & Society?

1200

These divide the Earth into "half spheres"

What are hemispheres?

1200

a large division or block of time that historians use to label groups of years

era

1200

 Scientists work to uncover clues to learn about early human life. Anthropologists focus on human society.

Anthropologist

1200

List  3 clues you would look for to decide if an online resource is trustworthy.

  • Authority: Who is the author? What are their credentials? ... 
  • Accuracy: Compare the author's information to that which you already know is reliable. ... 
  • Coverage: Is the information relevant to your topic and does it meet your needs? ...
1300

This element of geography has to do with how hurricanes, volcanoes, and glaciers shape the Earth's surface

What are Physical Systems?

1300

These types of maps show the Earth on a flat sheet of paper

What are projection maps?

1300

an object made by people, such as tools, pottery, weapons, and jewelry

artifact

1300

When digging begins for the construction of a new building, workers sometimes find artifacts or ruins of earlier societies.

Archaeologist

1300

Which URL ending would identify a Web site for a charity?
.org b. .gov c. .edu

.org

1400

This element of geography has to do with the location of a place

What is The World in Spatial Terms?

1400

These lines allow us to find the absolute location of a place

What are latitude and longitude?

1400

remains of plants or animals that have been preserved from an earlier time

fossil

1400

find clues about prehistoric humans by studying bones and fossils.

Paleontologist

1400

A decade is a period of time that last

ten years

1500

This element of geography has to do with the physical characteristics of a place, such as landforms, climate and plant/animal life

What is Places and Regions?

1500

These types of maps show and name borders of countries

What are political maps?

1500

firsthand evidence of an event in history; written or created by people who saw or experienced an event

primary source 

1500

Historian

people who study and write about the human past to learn about important people and events. 

1500

The calendar we use today is called the ______ calendar

 Gregorian Calendar

2000

These two elements of geography have to do with how humans have shaped our world and the mastering of tools and technology to study geography

What are Human Systems and the Uses of Geography?

2000

Name the five themes of geography

What are: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions?

2000

an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events; cannot always be trusted

bias

2000

 concerned with academic learning or research

scholar

2000

A leap year is a year that has _________.

one extra day

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