Interested in how people lived their daily lives. Their main concern is human activity.
What is a historian?
100
The study of the earth's physical and cultural features.
What is geography?
100
One provides a firsthand account of an event, while the other includes information gathered by someone who did not witness the event.
What is how primary and secondary sources differ?
100
The study of the past based on what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
200
The study of the past.
What is history?
200
Individuals and countries benefit from the wisdom that history can teach.
What is knowing your world?
200
In addition to earth features, they study the pattern of weather conditions.
What is a physical geographer?
200
Coins, arrowheads, pottery,objects created and used by humans.
What are artifacts?
200
Includes all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area.
What is the environment?
300
Bones and footprints preserved in rock.
What is a fossil?
300
History is concerned with the understanding that today's events are shaped by the events of the past.
What is knowing your world?
300
It affects many features of a region: plant life, the rain forests, deserts, and mountains.
What is climate?
300
As historians review and reanalyze information, their interpretations may change.
What is historians change interpretations as new evidence leads to new conclusions.
300
This feature may be physical, such as a forest. It may be a human feature as a city or farm. It can also be identified by the language spoken in an area, or the religion practiced.
What is a region?
400
An audio or video recording of an event.
What is a primary source?
400
Native Americans, European settlers,enslaved Africans,and Asian immigrants all play a vital role in our country's history.
There experiences help us see the viewpoints of other peoples; it teaches us respect and understanding of different opinions.
What is Tolerance?
400
They have been made for more that 4,000 years. They are used to plan battles, discover new lands, define boundaries.
What is a map?
400
This was invented about 5,000 years ago.
What is writing?
400
Throughout history it has been valued to meet the needs of a people. In early times, water, animals, land were the basics. Then, metals such as copper, gold and iron were discovered and used.
What is a resource?
500
History textbooks, journal articles; information gathered by someone who is not part of the event.
What is a secondary source?
500
A quote that helps people keep from making the same mistakes that people made in the past.
What is "Those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it"?
500
Deals with how the environment affects people.
What is human geography?
500
Historians have studied writing carved into stone pillars, stamped onto clay tablets, scribbled on turtle shells, typed with typewriters, and sent by computers.
What is how people have recorded their messages over the centuries?
500
People have influenced their environment in positive and negative ways. People have planted millions of trees, but they have also created wastelands. Areas rich in resources have thrived, rivers and seas made trade possible.
What are some ways geography has shaped human history?