Vocabulary
An area of high, flat land.
What is a plateau?
A first hand point of view or witness of an event.
What is a primary source?
The study of earth, its natural features, its people, and the ways in which they interact.
What is geography?
Because there is not a year zero.
Why do you need to subtract 1 when determining how many years apart are BC and AD years?
The most prominent line of latitude.
What is the equator?
A crack in the earth's surface.
What is a fault line?
A way of life of people who share similar beliefs or customs.
What is culture?
The city.
What is urban?
An extended period of time without rain.
What is a drought?
Because it is a sphere.
Why does a glove depict the Earth more accurately than a map?
A steep slope or cliff.
What is an escarpment?
A person who owes loyalty to and is entitle to the protection of a state or nation.
What is a citizen?
The countryside.
What is rural?
The average weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
It has an exact address or grid coordinates.
What is absolute location?
A narrow strip of land between the ocean and the mainland.
What is a barrier island?
Historians use it to show events in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
A large area of flat, or nearly flat land.
What is a plain?
What is happening outside right now.
What is weather?
It has an exact date next to it.
What is absolute chronology?
A layer of rock that absorbs rainfall.
What is an aquifer?
A point of view based on personal feelings (not an opinion).
What is bias?
The surroundings in which people, plants, and animals live.
What is environment?
You just subtract the smaller year from the larger year.
How do you determine how far apart AD years are?
The most prominent line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?