Six Essential Elements
This element of geography has to do with how humans interact with the environment
What is Environment & Society?
These divide the Earth into "half spheres"
What are hemispheres?
a large division or block of time that historians use to label groups of years
era
Scientists work to uncover clues to learn about early human life. Anthropologists focus on human society.
Anthropologist
List 3 clues you would look for to decide if an online resource is trustworthy.
This element of geography has to do with how hurricanes, volcanoes, and glaciers shape the Earth's surface
What are Physical Systems?
These types of maps show the Earth on a flat sheet of paper
What are projection maps?
an object made by people, such as tools, pottery, weapons, and jewelry
artifact
When digging begins for the construction of a new building, workers sometimes find artifacts or ruins of earlier societies.
Archaeologist
Which URL ending would identify a Web site for a charity?
.org b. .gov c. .edu
.org
This element of geography has to do with the location of a place
What is The World in Spatial Terms?
These lines allow us to find the absolute location of a place
What are latitude and longitude?
remains of plants or animals that have been preserved from an earlier time
fossil
find clues about prehistoric humans by studying bones and fossils.
Paleontologist
A decade is a period of time that last
ten years
This element of geography has to do with the physical characteristics of a place, such as landforms, climate and plant/animal life
What is Places and Regions?
These types of maps show and name borders of countries
What are political maps?
firsthand evidence of an event in history; written or created by people who saw or experienced an event
primary source
Historian
people who study and write about the human past to learn about important people and events.
The calendar we use today is called the ______ calendar
Gregorian Calendar
These two elements of geography have to do with how humans have shaped our world and the mastering of tools and technology to study geography
What are Human Systems and the Uses of Geography?
Name the five themes of geography
What are: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions?
an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events; cannot always be trusted
bias
concerned with academic learning or research
scholar
A leap year is a year that has _________.
one extra day