5 Strands of Geography
Early Humans
Mesopotamia
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100

This Stand of Social Studies is the study of the earths features.

What is Geography?

100

This continent is known as the "cradle of humanity" because the oldest human fossils have been found there.

What is Africa?

100

This term is the English translation of the Greek term Mesopotamia. 

What is "Land between two rivers"?

100

These are the 7 continents 

What are Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

100

This line separates the eastern and western Hemispheres. 

What is the Prime Meridian?

200

This Strand of Geography is the way people live and what they believe.

What is Culture?

200

Early humans who moved from place to place, following herds and searching for nuts and berries, are known by this two-word term.

What are Hunters and Gatherers?

200

The rich, fertile soil of Mesopotamia and the surrounding area earned it the nickname.

What is "The Fertile Crescent" 

200

These are the 5 oceans.

What are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Artic?

200

This land feature is surrounded by water on three sides e.g. Florida.

What is a Peninsula?

300
This Strand of Geography starts with H

What is History?

300

A person who studies the remains of early humans by digging up and examining their artifacts is called this.

What is an archeologist?

300

These two rivers flow through the fertile crescent.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?

300

These lines run horizontal across the earth.

What is Latitude?

300

What caused early humans to migrate out of Africa?

What are lack of resources, climate change, curiosity, and growing populations?
400

This strand of Social Studies involves the way rules are created and the way people work together in society.

What is Government and Civics?

400

This term in used to describe people who move from place to place following resources.

What is a nomad?

400

The Sumerians invented this wedge-shaped writing system, which was pressed into wet clay tablets with a reed stylus

What is Cuneiform?

400

These lines run vertically across the globe

What is Longitude?

400

Early Humans did this to leave notes and express themselves.

What are cave paintings?

500

This Strand of Social Studies is the way people get the things they need.

What is Economics?

500

This is a general term for any portable object made or used by humans, such as a tool, pottery, or piece of jewelry.

What is an artifact?

500

This famous king of Babylon created a set of 282 laws that included the phrase "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."

Who is King Hammurabi?

500

What is the line that separates the North and South Hemispheres. 

What is the Equator?

500

This is the country today where Mesopotamia once thrived.

What is Iraq?