Timelines
The year 500 BCE is __________ (before/after) the year 200 BCE.
What is before?
A diary from a soldier is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
How many continents are there?
What is 7?
People who lived by hunting animals and gathering plants were called ____.
What are hunter-gatherers?
The line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This system means “Common Era” and counts forward from year 1.
What is CE?
A history textbook is this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
How many oceans are there?
What is 5?
People who discovered farming and built permanent homes were called ____.
What are agricultural settlers?
The line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
There is no year ___ in our calendar system
What is 0?
This type of source gives first-hand evidence.
What is a primary source?
Lines running east–west that measure north/south are called ____.
What is latitude?
Hunter-gatherers moved often. This is called being ____.
What is nomadic?
The United States is located in which two hemispheres?
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
Which date is closer to today: 300 CE or 100 CE?
What is 300 CE?
Why are secondary sources important?
What is they explain, summarize, and analyze primary sources?
Lines running north–south that measure east/west are called ____.
What is longitude?
One way agricultural settlers lived differently than hunter-gatherers.
What is they built permanent homes and larger villages?
Brazil is located in which two hemispheres?
What are the Southern and Western Hemispheres?
Explain how BC/BCE dates work differently than AD/CE.
What is BC/BCE counts backward from year 1, while AD/CE counts forward?
Give one example of a primary source and one example of a secondary source.
Examples: Primary – letter, artifact, photo; Secondary – biography, documentary, textbook.
Name all four cardinal directions
What are north, south, east, and west?
Compare hunter-gatherers and settlers in one sentence.
What is hunter-gatherers moved for food, while settlers stayed in one place and farmed?
Explain how hemispheres are used in geography.
What is they help locate where a place is on Earth?