Vocabulary
What are eras?
place, movement, human-environment interaction, location, and region.
What are the five themes of geography?
the main purpose of a historian.
What is to find out why something happened, how something happened, or what might happen if...
the study of fossils.
What is paleontology?
a system used for breaking time into units; the one we most commonly use.
What is a calendar; what is the western calendar?
objects made by people.
What are artifacts?
The specific location of a place on Earth's surface.
What is absolute location?
subjects historians use together to understand the past.
What are geography and history?
a half-sphere used to refer to one half of the globe, when divided up into N, S, E, and W.
What are hemispheres?
The time before people developed writing (about 500,000 years ago)
What is the prehistoric period or prehistory?
invisible lines that run north and south of the equator.
What is latitude?
similar to how we share ideas through the internet.
What is movement?
historians _______, ______, and _______ about history.
What is research, organize, and write about?
One shows land and water features, the other shows names and boundaries of countries.
What are physical maps and political maps?
time counted backwards by historians, before Jesus.
What is BCE?
invisible lines that run east and west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
describing a place by what it looks like, like mountains/snow/water.
What are physical characteristics of a place?
another type of historian
What is an archaeologist?
north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
time counted forwards by historians, after the birth of Jesus.
the study of the past by looking at what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
how people adapt to places they live, or the impact people and where they live have on one another, good or bad.
What is human-environment interaction?
Why study history?
the order of dates in which something/some event happened, usually seen on this.
What is chronology on a timeline?
what CE stands for, in relation to time.
What is Common Era?