Terms To Know
Types of Maps
Social Scientists
5 Themes of Geography
Terms to Know
100
object made or used by people in the past
What is an artifact?
100
physical (mountains, rivers)
What is a type of map with landforms and bodies of water?
100
mapping the past study natural features of Earth (water,landforms, plants)
What is geographers and what do they study?
100
identify a precise spot, one place in relation to another (Where is it?)
What is location?
100
weather conditions over long period of time
What is climate?
200
Before written history
What is prehistoric?
200
political - boundaries, size/shape, cities, states, territories, countries
What is type of map that has features people created?
200
record the past study artifacts and documents
What is a historian and what do they study?
200
physical characteristics and human ones (language, religion, politics) (what is it like?)
What is place?
200
study of Earth and people
What is geography?
300
Large landmass (7)
What is continent?
300
Thematic - historical events, vegetation, population, etc.
What is type of map that has certain info about a place or region?
300
digging up the past study what people left behind
What is an archaeologists and what do they study?
300
compares physical and human characteristics (how similar or different?)
What is region?
300
an island or naturally formed feature on Earth's surface
What is landform?
400
Imaginary line north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
400
how move one location to another - people, goods, ideas
What is movement?
400
plant life
What is vegetation?
500
imaginary line east and west of equator
What is longitude?
500
learn to use and change environment offers them (how people relate to physical world)
What is human-environment interaction?
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