Social Sciences
These are people who study history.
Who are Historians?
These are remains of once living things.
What are fossils?
This type of map shows cities, countries or territories.
What is a political map?
This is a time period of 10 years.
What is a decade?
This is the exact spot of a location given with longitude and latitude.
What is absolute location?
This is the study of physical features and how they relate to humans.
What is Geography?
This is newer technology that helps pinpoint specific locations.
What is GPS?
These are imaginary lines that help pinpoint a location.
What are longitude and latitude lines?
This is a time period of 100 years?
What is a century?
This is a description of a location.
What is relative location?
This is the study of how goods and money are managed.
What is Economics.
These are photos of Earth taken from space.
What is satellite imagery?
These maps show landforms and bodies of water.
What are physical maps?
This is a time period of 1,000 years.
What is a millennium?
This is where lines of latitude and longitude cross.
What are coordinates?
This is the study of how governments work.
What is political science?
This is 3D mapping and often shows layers.
What is GIS or geographic information systems?
These maps show climates, natural resources or even movement of people.
What are thematic maps?
This is a period of time beginning or ending with a special date or event.
What is an era?
This is half of the Earth?
What is a hemisphere?
This is the study of artifacts left behind.
What is archaeology?
This is the use of aircraft to take pictures of an area.
What is aerial photography?
People who create maps are called this.
What is a cartographer?
This is a time where there is a period of development.
What is an epoch?
This is the type of geography used when using absolute or relative locations.
What is spatial geography?