People in History
Map & Chart Skills
World Atlas
Governments
Important Inventions
100
He discovered the Sun was the center of the Solar System, the moons surface is uneven and three of Jupiter's moons.
Who is Galileo
100
The body of water located between Europe, Asia and Africa that contained major trade routes in Greek and Roman Times.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The country with the greatest oil consumption.
What is The United States?
100
A type of government ruled by a queen or king.
What is Monarchy?
100
He invented the mercury thermometer.
Who was Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit?
200
A famous Greek leader, created one of the largest empires in ancient times and spread Greek culture to other regions.
Who was Alexander the Great?
200
The part of the map that tells what symbols mean and contains a measurement chart.
What is the Key?
200
This type of atlas map shows how many people live in a given area.
What is a Population Density Map?
200
The type of government we have in the United States and Canada.
What is a Representative Democracy?
200
He invented calculus and proved the force of gravity.
Who was Isaac Newton?
300
Found a overland trade route to the Orient (Asia) and brought back Silk and spices from Asia to Europe.
Who was Marco Polo?
300
The names of all seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica and the Arctic?
300
The type of atlas map that shows mineral deposits, cattle farming, and oil.
What is an Economic Resources Map?
300
Type of government in which a leader rules by force and typically limits citizen's freedoms.
What is a Dictatorship?
300
He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses and the cast-iron stove and was the first person to understand and prove that lightening was a natural form of electricity.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
Was the first European to successfully sail from Europe to India by going around the tip of South Africa.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
400
The imaginary lines that measure east to west,also known as meridians.
What are lines of longitude?
400
This type of map shows what kind of weather places on the map typically experience.
What is a Climate Regions Map?
400
This type of government has the people choose their leaders.
What is a Republic?
400
This machine, first made in Germany, revolutionized the way books were made helped bring about the Renaissance.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
500
A famous astronomer who discovered the Earth was not the center of the Universe and wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".
Who was Copernicus?
500
Imaginary lines that measure in degrees the distance north or south of the Equator, also known as parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
500
Three features found on a political map.
What are political boundaries, major cities and capitals.
500
A government where religious leaders are in control.
What is a Theocracy?
500
He developed the first vaccine for Small Pox that changed the way we treat infectious diseases.
Who was Edward Jenner?
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