Thinking Like a Historian
A person who studies and writes about the people and events of the past
What is a historian?
The five themes of geography
What are location, place, regions, movement and human-environment interaction?
The study of how people and nations make choices about using scarce resources to fill their needs and wants
What is economics?
The study of rights and duties of citizens
What is civics?
The indicator for a capital city on a map
What is a star?
Tools used to measure time
What is a calendar and a time line?
The tools of the geographer include these. They help us to learn more about the Earth
What are a map and a globe?
Human-made goods that people use to produce other goods and services
What is capital?
The government must treat all people by certain procedures established by law and the Constitution
What is due process?
A foreign-born person must be this age to become a U.S. citizen
What is 18 (or older)?
Printed publications, songs and poems, oral histories and artifacts are examples of this
What is a primary source?
This kind of map shows landforms, ups and downs of the Earth's surface and elevation
Why is a physical map?
The three basic economic systems
What are traditional, command and market economies?
Four basic duties of Americans
What are obey the law, pay taxes, serve on juries and defend the nation?
A flat drawing of all or part of the Earth's surface
What is a map?
They display types of information such as percentages, numbers and amounts
What are graphs, charts and diagrams?
This kind of map shows population density and events that occurred over time
What is a special purpose map?
Neither the buyer nor seller is forced to trade
What is voluntary exchange?
The two forms of democracy
What are direct and representative?
Drawings that show steps in a process, point out parts of an object or explain how something works
What is a diagram?
Making comparisons, distinguishing fact from opinion and drawing inferences and conclusions are types of __________ that a historian needs
What are thinking skills?
Physical Systems, Places and Regions and The World in Spatial Terms are all examples of this
What is are the essential elements of geography?
Borrowing money to buy something today with the promise to pay back the bank or individual the borrowed amount plus interest
what is credit?
Classifications of government
What are autocracy, oligarchy and democracy?
The Bill of Rights is made up of the first ____ amendments
What is 10?