1.1 Terms
What is history?
What are resources?
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
To move.
What is migrate?
The study of the past based on what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
Objects created by and used by humans.
What are artifacts?
What is the study of the earth's physical and cultural features?
A strip of land connecting two continents.
What is a land bridge?
The difference between longitude and latitude.
Longitude: vertical. Latitude: horizontal.
Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
What is a primary source?
What are the main two branches of geography?
What is physical and human geography?
What is a society?
A community of people who share a common culture.
What are hominids? (Add which worldview it's part of).
Early human ancestors who lived millions of years ago. Evolutionist.
Why did people migrate?
Climate changes.
Interprets and analyzes primary sources.
Give a reason how human geography help us understand history.
What kind of work do people do? How do they get food? What are their homes like? What religions do they practice? How does the environment affect the people? How do people protect themselves? Why do some diseases spread easily?
What are the three views of how humans started to live on earth?
1. Young Earth Creationist
2. Old Earth Creationist
3. Evolutionist
Why did people quit being hunter-gatherers?
List the five themes of geography.
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
The knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.
What is culture?
What resources does a place have that people can use (food, housing, etc.)? How do people form communities around certain environments? How does the environment help protect against invasion?
How does your worldview affect your understanding of how civilization/the Earth began?
Answer varies.
How did people adapt to their environments?
Built their own shelters, made clothes to adapt to the environment, ate different foods, developed and improved tools and technologies.
There are three main views of how humans started to live on earth. Write a general statement for each worldview.
The world evolved from nothing over millions of years. (Evolutionist)
God made the earth but then let evolution do lots of the work. (Evolutionary Creationist/Old Earth Creationist)
God made the earth as it is in 6 days. (Young Earth Creationist)