This is the theme of geography that has to do with where a place is. It's the theme that says a place is affected by where it is, what it's near, what it's far from, etc.
What is location?
100
This is the field of human study that looks at human beings as a species.
What is anthropology?
100
This is the period of time before the beginning of writing.
What is prehistory?
100
These are the natural features that human beings settled near when they decided to make farming and ranching their primary way of producing food?
What are rivers?
100
These are people who make things?
What are artisans?
200
This is the theme of geography that has to do with the characteristics of a given location. It includes physical features like landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, resources, animal life, etc.
What is place?
200
This is the subfield of anthropology that looks at the study of past, based on what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
200
This is the Old Stone Age, from 2 million to 10,000 B.C.
What is the Paleolithic era?
200
Cities, organized governments, complex religions, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, public works and writing.
What are features of civilization?
200
This is a grouping in society based on employment and wealth.
What is a social class?
300
This is the theme of geography that looks at how a place is affected by what comes into it, such as people, goods and ideas from other places.
What is movement?
300
These are man-made objects that archaeologists use to figure out how people lived in the distant past before writing was invented.
What are artifacts?
300
This is the primary way humans got their food during the Old Stone Age?
What is hunting and gathering?
300
This word is related to the word for city and means "a complex, highly organized social order."
What is civilization?
300
This river valley became the origin of civilization in India?
What is the Indus River Valley?
400
This is the theme of geography that looks at how a particular place fits into a category of similar places.
What is region?
400
These are structures that are left behind by ancient peoples.
What are ruins?
400
This is a belief that the world is full of spirits and forces that reside in animals, objects or dreams.
What is animism?
400
This word means "new stone age."
What is Neolithic?
400
The Nile is known as the origin of this civilization.
What is Egypt?
500
This is the theme of geography that focuses on the relationship between people and the land. It looks at how people are affected by their own geography as well as how they, in turn, affect it.
What is human-environment interaction?
500
These are the body parts - skeletons, teeth, etc. - of ancient peoples.
What are remains?
500
These are the ways human beings began to produce their own food during the Neolithic or New Stone Age.
What are farming and ranching/herding?
500
This method of keeping time is a result of the neolithic revolution.
What is a calendar?
500
This civilization was located on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.