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What is the large landmass combining the continents that existed 250 million years ago called? Geologists named it supercontinent:
Pangaea
Which two continents are part of the Western Hemisphere?
North America and South America
What are hunter-gatherers?
Hunters-gatherers got food and clothing by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.
What is the little box that often explains what colors or symbols on the map represent?
Map Key
How many continents are there?
Seven
What is the movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of permanently settling in a new location?:
Migration
What is the theory that proposes that Earth’s outer layer is made up of a series of plates that are continually moving called?
Plate Tectonics Theory
How are the Pueblo and Inuit homes similar? How are they different?
Answers will vary.
What is the hemisphere we are exploring this year called?
Western Hemisphere
What is a fossil?
The remains of something that was once alive.
What is the word that means half earth? There are four of them: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western:
Hemisphere
What is the system of lines used to describe the location of any place on Earth?
Latitude and Longitude
The Pueblo people first lived in homes called brush-shelters. The next type of home they lived in were pithouses. After analyzing the pictures on the review sheet, why do you think their type of home changed?
The brush shelter is portable and the pithouse is not. The Pueblo people settled in one spot and became farmers. They gave up their nomadic lifestyle to plant and tend to their crops.
What is a narrow connection between two otherwise unconnected large land masses? Some of these became visible during the ice age.
Land Bridge
What is an artifact?
A manmade object from someone long ago.
What is the imaginary line that runs through many countries, and separates the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The Inuit
Name two regions of Latin America
The Island Hoppers, The Andes, The Coasts, The Amazon Basin, Pampas, and Mexico and Central America
Name three types of Early American homes.
longhouse, wigwam, tipi, igloo, pueblo, chickee, hogan
What is the environmental factor that greatly influenced human migration? These were times when the entire Earth experienced colder climatic conditions.
Ice Age
What is the Alfred Wegener’s theory to explain that the continents moved called?
The Continental Drift Theory
What is the imaginary line that runs through many countries, and separates the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
What is a natural wonder? How is it different from the ancient wonders?
Natural wonders are not made by humans but exist in nature. They are the result of a geological process. It is different than ancient wonders because those are man-made.
What do scientists believed caused the fall of the Mayan civilization?
Deforestation and unsustainable farming practices
What is the imaginary line drawn from the North to South pole dividing the Earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
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