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Vocabulary
Geography
Maps
Archaeologists
Historians
100
The study of Earth and its people.
What is geography?
100
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
What are the seven continents?
100
It looks more like Earth, since both are round.
What is an advantage of a globe?
100
Scientists search for bones and other evidence that might tell them about life long ago.
What is an archaeological dig?
100
Patterns that explain how and why things happened.
What do historians try to find?
200
Describes the weather conditions on a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
The largest bodies of water on Earth.
What are oceans?
200
Imaginary lines that measure distances north and south of the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
200
Figuring out the approximate age of fossils.
What is one of the archaeologist's greatest challenges?
200
Written after a historical event by people who did not witness the event.
What is a secondary source?
300
Remains of early life preserved in the ground.
What are fossils?
300
Location, Place, Region, Movement, and HUman-Environment Interaction.
What are the five themes of geography?
300
The Global Positioning System that helps make maps.
What is a satellite?
300
Some of the earliest humanlike beings that archaeologists have found.
What are australopithecines?
300
Made up of all the unwritten verbal accounts of events.
What is oral history?
400
Beings that walk on two feet.
What are hominids?
400
The temperature and conditions in a particular place at a particular time.
What is weather?
400
Shows the features people have created, such as cities, states, provinces, territories, and countries.
What is a political map?
400
An australopithecine Donald Johanson and his team found in 1974.
Who is Lucy?
400
They must sort through all of the information and choose what's most important and most trustworthy as evidence.
What must historians do?
500
Something written or created by a person who witnessed a historical event.
What is a primary source?
500
Islands, mountains, and plains.
What are landforms?
500
Geographers find the point where a latitude line and a longitude line cross.
What is a grid system?
500
Paleolithic Age, Mesolithic Age, and Neolithic Age
What are the three phases of the Stone Age?
500
How have leaders governed societies?
What is one historical question?