Geography
Terms
Terms
North, South, East, West are these types of directions.
What is Cardinal directions?
The mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that made the land ideal for farming.
What is silt?
The time before there was writing.
What is prehistory?
Referring to a countryside area
What is rural?
The number of children Mrs. Dannefer has.
What is three?
This type of source is someone that took part in or witnessed an event.
What is a Primary Source?
One of the two rivers that the Fertile Crescent sets between.
What is the Tigris or Euphrates River?
A relative that lived in the past
What is an Ancestor?
A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
The sport that Mrs. Dannefer Coaches.
What is High School Track (Throwing)?
These imaginary lines wrap around the world and are parallel to the Equator.
What are latitude lines?
The world’s first system of writing in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
What was built in Jericho that proved that there was a government
What was a wall?
A set of 282 laws governing daily life in Babylon; the earliest known collection of written laws
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
The country abroad that Ms.G visited on a school trip.
What is Poland?
On a map, this direction is typically at the top.
What is North?
The worship of many gods
What is polytheism?
The modern name of the “Ice Man” that was found by a hiker in the mountains in Italy.
Who is Otzi?
A strip of land connecting two continents.
What is a land bridge?
The sport Ms.G played as a kid.
What is soccer?
This is the pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The pyramid-shaped worship center for Sumerians.
What is a Ziggurat?
Another name for the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
A huge stone monument.
What is a megalith?
One of the names of Mrs. Dannefer’s dogs.
Who is Penny, Winston, or Bandit?