Lesson 1
the study of Earth and its people
What is geography
The skills and methods people use to make maps
What is geography?
an object made by an human
what is an artifact
the study of past events
what is history
the info physical maps give are what
what are landforms and bodies of water
Large landmasses
What are continents?
each half of the earth
What are hemispheres
the recovery and study of physical evidence from the past
What is an archaeologist
a is a person who studies and interprets, or explains the importance of the past
What is a historian
Political maps give what info
what are capitals, major cities, and important landforms
list some examples of landforms
What are mountains, plateaus, hills, valleys, and plains
imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator
what is latitude
a way of life shared by a group of people
what is culture
A document or artifact created during a particular historical period
What is primary source
thematic maps give what info
what are specific types of info
List some examples of bodies of water
What are rivers, lakes, and ocean
a way of keeping distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable
what is projection
two types of anthropology
What are physical and cultural anthropology
a work produced about a historical event by someone who wasn't there
what is secondary source
tells a person's exact location on earth and uses 24 satellites called Navstars
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)
The five themes of geography
What are location, place, movement, region, and human environment interaction
the person who influenced maps to others and made maps more accurate
What is Ptolemy
The steps of carbon dating
What are select site, survey site, collect artifacts that lie of surface, excavate, record findings, draw conclusions, and ask question
includes stores a culture has passed from generation to generation
What is oral history
these people were influenced by Ptolemy
who are Islamic mapmakers