Geography
The study of earth and its people
What is Geography?
The skills and methods people use to make maps
What is cartography?
The recovery and study of physical evidence from the past
What is archaeology?
The study of past events
What is history?
What is location
One of the seven large landmasses; North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, and Europe
What is a continent
A way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable
What is a projection?
An object made by a human
What is an artifact?
A person who studies, interprets, and explains the past
What is a historian?
A person who studies cartography
What is a cartographer?
A feature of Earth's land surface
What is a landform?
Each half of the Earth
What is a hemisphere?
A type of digging to find buried artifacts
What is excavation?
A document or artifact created during a particular time period
What is a primary source?
A person who studies archaeology
What is an archaeologist?
The condition of the atmosphere at the particular place and time
What is weather?
Imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator
What are latitude lines
The study of human traits and human cultures
What is anthropology?
Stories from a culture passed down from generation to generation
What is oral history
A person who studies anthropology
What is an anthropologist?
The typical weather conditions at a particular place over a long period of time
What is climate?
Imaginary lines that go around the Earth north and south
What are longitude lines
A way of life shared by a group of people
What is culture?
A work produced by someone who is not actually there
What is a secondary source?
A type of map that shows specific types of information
What is a thematic map?