VOCAB
Studying History
Geography
Location
Misc.
100
The study of the past.
What is HISTORY
100
People who study the past.
What are historians?
100
Geography
What is the study of the earth's physical and cultural features?
100
The exact description of where something is.
What is location?
100
By planting millions of trees and creating new lakes in the middle of deserts.
How have people positively influenced their environments?
200
An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.
What is primary source
200
Both study people and places of the past.
How are archaeology and history similar?
200
The study of people and the places where they live.
What is human geography?
200
Characteristics.
What is another word for features.
200
By creating wastelands where there were once forests and building dams that created floods in nearby areas.
How have people negatively influenced their environments?
300
The pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
300
The knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.
What is culture?
300
Physical Geography
What is the study of earth's land and features.
300
4,000+ years.
How long have people been making maps?
300
An idea about someone or something based solely on opinions, not facts.
What is bias?
400
Materials found in the earth that people need and value.
What is resource?
400
Ability to understand the world today and provide us with a guide to making better future decision.
Why do people study history?
400
Mountains, valleys, plains.
What are landforms?
400
An area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
400
Not being influenced by personal feelings or opinions.
What is being objective?
500
The definition for A.D.
What is anno domini?
500
The four types of clues used to understand how people lived in the past.
What are fossils, artifacts, primary sources, and secondary sources?
500
Environment.
What is all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area?
500
Development of cultures, growth of civilizations, protection from invasions.
How does geography shape culture?
500
Coins, arrowheads, tools, toys, pottery.
What are artifacts?
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