Geography of the US
What is a Globe?
A sphere that is a model of Earth and most accurately represents it.
How many cultural regions are there?
7 regions.
What is an Explorer?
A person who travels in search of new geographical information.
What is an Activist?
Someone who works to bring social or political change.
What is a Kiva?
A circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies.
What are the Cardinal Directions?
North, South, East, and West.
What does it mean to be Nomadic?
To move from place to place (often with changing of the seasons).
What are Archaelogists?
Scientists who study artifacts to learn about past cultures.
What is Racism?
When people and the government treat people unfairly based on the color of their skin.
What is an Environment?
Everything that surrounds a given area.
What are the Intermediate Directions?
Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest.
What are Totem Poles?
Wooden cedar poles with carvings of animals, humans, and spirits.
When did the Age of Exploration begin?
The late 1400's.
What is a Boycott?
When people stop using a service to create change.
A record of an event created by someone who was there.
What imaginary parallel line runs west to east around the Earth?
Latitude.
What is Culture?
A way of living such as religion, language, traditions, way a group eats, lives in, or wears.
What is a Nation State?
An independent country whose people mostly share a common identity.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
A large-scale effort in the US to achieve equal rights for African Americans and people of a darker skin color.
What is a Secondary Source?
A record of an event created by someone who was not there.
At what degree is the Equator at?
O degrees.
What are the 7 regions?
1. California Intermountain
2. Eastern Woodlands
3. Great Plains
4. Plateau
5. Northwest Coast
6. Southeast
7. Southwest
What land makes up the Americas?
The land of North America, South America, and Central America.
What is Segregation?
The act of setting someone of something away from others.
What is Adaptation?
A change of adjustment in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment.