Core Concepts 1
A place's exact position on Earth, in terms of latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
Considers how people affect their environment, and how their environment affects them.
What is human-environment interaction?
A model usually 3D, that represents all the parts.
What is a physical model?
Brainstorm, Build, Test, Evaluate, Redesign.
What are the Engineering Design Steps?
He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
Refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.
What is place?
The most important line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
A person who tries to gain knowledge and learn information.
What is a scientist?
How did it work? What went well? What could be improved?
What is Evaluate?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are said to have lasted this long.
What is 43 years?
Location of a place relative to another place.
What is relative location?
Degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
Represents a particular concept that will help people understand.
What is a conceptual model?
Make a better model by doing all steps again.
What is redesign?
Throughout Mesopotamia, this class was at the bottom of the social structure(s).
What are slaves?
Area with at least one unifying physical or human feature.
What is a region?
Degrees North or South of the Equator.
What is Latitude?
A series of steps engineers use to create a product.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
Creating a model, gather materials, putting together a prototype.
What is build/construct?
Sumerians used this type of numbering system, which is still used to number seconds, minutes, and hours.
What is a base-60 numbering system?
Explores how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another.
What is movement?
Half of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
In the Scientific Method, this would be the "Experiment" phase.
What is Test?
List ideas, share information.
What is brainstorm?
Most cultures in Mesopotamia believed in many gods, also called this.
What is polytheism?