5 Themes of Geography
Describes the physical or human characteristics that make a location unique.
What is Place?
One widely accepted theory suggest about how the ancestors of Native American Indians migrated to the Americas from Asia is by crossing this
What is Beringia (Land Bridge)?
They developed a system of terrace farming to plant crops in the mountains.
Who were Incas? or What was the Incan Empire?
How do we know the Inca developed technology to adapt their surroundings?
Answers may vary - Steppe farming, terraces and irrigation.
This the type of government used by the Iroquois Confederacy.
Representative government
The relationship between human beings and the natural world
What is Human Environmental Interaction?
The study of people, their environments, and their resources
What is Geography?
This large civilization built roads and rope bridges.
Who were the Incas? (They had the largest empire in the Americas.)
Which of the following Themes of Geography is best depicted in the image?
HEI - Human Environmental Interaction
What influenced all the Native Americans in how they lived, dressed and built their dwellings.
Geographic factors helped shape native lifestyles.
Region, HEI, answers may vary.
An area of the world that has similar unifying characteristics
What is a Region?
This the term we use to describe a way of life shared by members of a society, such as governments, religions, and written languages,
What is culture?
These are the people who lived in the mountains and increased the amount of land available for agriculture by creating terraces or steps in the mountain side.
Who were the people of ancient Peru (The Inca)?
This group of Native Americans can be considered an early representative democracy that respected many points of view
The Iroquois or the Iroquois Confederacy
Why didn't all the Native Americans dress the same or live in the same types of dwellings?
A variety of environmental conditions existed throughout this region
How people, goods, information and culture got to a particular place
What is Movement?
It can include letters, diaries, notes, photographs, artifacts, interviews, and sound or video recordings
Which is a primary source?
Use the Maya-Aztec Venn diagram. The creation of a writing system, calendar and Priests and Temples.
What are features that were characteristic of both the Maya and Aztec civilizations?
The arrangement of the Iroquois village with a stockade fence in the illustration shows that . . .
Protection from enemies was important
Explain why the Iroquois were or were not nomadic.
Answers may vary.
Look at their village
Describes where something is
What is Location?
They are scientists who search for artifacts like weapons, tools, clothing, homes, etc.
What is an Archaeologists?
Use the Maya-Aztec Venn diagram.Only the Mayans had these,
The development of astronomy, the number zero or having city-states.
This Native American group gave women a strong voice in decision making for their tribes
The Iroquois or the The Iroquois Confederacy
Digging irrigation cannels and the use of air conditioning are examples of . . .
How human actions modify the physical environment.