Geography
5 themes of Geography
Prehistory
Egypt
News Related
100

Study of how humans interact with Earth

Human Geography

100

 Position on Earth's surface

Location 

100

Human made objects, such as tools or jewelry

Artifacts

100

Egyptian Writing surface made from their marshy lands

Papyrus 

100

An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time of study

Primary Source

200

Imaginary east-west circles on Earth's surface that measure a location's position north or south of the Equator

Latitude Lines

200

Physical and human characteristics

Place

200

The age that is also referred to as the stone age, ranging from 2.5 million years ago to 8000 BC

Paleolithic Age

200

The belief in more than one god is called what

Polytheism

200

This is something that was created later by someone that did NOT experience first hand or participate in the events in which the author is  writing about

Secondary Source

300

imaginary half-circle lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole, measuring a location's distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.

Longitude Lines

300

How humans adapt to and modify the environment

Human-Environment Interaction

300

The New Stone Age, lasting from 8000 BC to 3000 BC., people learned to polish tools and grow crops

Neolithic Age

300
A broad marshy area of land formed by deposits of silt near the mouth of a River

Delta

300

Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair  (close minded)

Bias

400

a measurement of the number of individuals per unit of land area, most commonly expressed as people per square mile or square kilometer. It

Population Density 

400

How people, goods, and ideas reach new places

Movement

400

Nomadic Groups whose food supply depended on killing animals and raising crops

Hunter-Gatherers 

400

Temples were built to honor these gods or goddesses in Egypt

Deities

400

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

Propaganda 

500

2 Things that Political Geography Studies or refers to

  • National Boundaries, Types of States, Capital Cities, International Organization, Geopolitical Issues, Territorial Disputes






500

 Areas that share common characteristics

Regions

500

Switch from copper and stone to make tools and weapons was this age

Bronze Age

500

Hieroglyphics comes from the Greek words hieros and gluph, meaning what

"Sacred Carving"

500

When news outlets tend to push their views on political ideologies, policy, or worldviews.

Media Bias

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