Social Science Discipline
__________ are like detectives. They analyze artifacts and primary and secondary sources in order to draw logical and evidence-based inferences.
Historians
BC
Before Christ
MRLIP
Movement
What is the line that goes across the world horizontally?
Equator
50 N 110 W
North America
Physical ___________ study the land features, the natural resources, and the climate of a region, and cultural ___________ study how people adapt and change their physical surroundings.
Geographers
BCE
Before Common Era
MRLIP
Place
What is the top half of the world called?
Northern Hemisphere
Africa
Political Scientists do this
Study how people govern themselves
CE
Common Era
MRLIP
Human Environment Interaction (Interaction)
What is the bottom half of the world called?
Southern Hemisphere
10 S 60 W
These people study small, isolated societies in order to gain a purer understanding of which cultural behaviors are influenced by nature or by nurture
Anthropologists
AD
Anno Domini
MRLIP
Region
What are the four Meridians?
Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western
50 N 100 E
Asia
__________ study society and social behavior
Sociologists
20th century
MRLIP
Location
What is the line that goes across the world vertically?
Prime Meridian
80 S 20 E
Antarctica