The study of the past
What is history?
Some one who learns about the past by examining artifacts and the places where the artifacts were found
What is an archeologist?
The study of earth's physical and cultural features
What is geography?
Materials found in the earth that people need and value
What are resources?
A drawing of an area
What is a map?
People who study history
What are historians?
A part or imprint of something that was once alive
What is a fossil?
The natural features of the land's surface
What are landforms?
The location of a place in relation to somewhere else.
What is relative location?
This line is the baseline for latitude
What is the Equator?
The study of the past based on what people left behind
What is archaeology?
Objects created by and used by humans
What are artifacts?
All the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area
What is the environment?
An area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas
What is a region?
The Equator separates these two hemispheres
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people
What is culture?
An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event
What is a primary source?
The pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time
What is climate?
Another name for characteristics
What are features?
The Prime Meridian separates these two hemispheres
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Ideas that people hold dear and try to live by
What are values?
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event
What is a secondary source?
The conditions at a specific time and place
What is weather?
The exact latitude and longitude of a place
What is absolute location?
This line is the baseline for longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?