The study of
Think Themes
On the Map, On the Map
Eyes on Evidence
Interpreting History
100

This is the study of Earth.

What is geography?

100

written documents, such as letters, diaries, and official records; literature or artwork from a particular time; spoken interviews and objects such as photos, tools, and clothing. 

What is primary sources?

100

This circles the middle of the Earth like a belt and divides the Earth into hemispheres.

What is the Equator?

100

Historians are like these because they ask questions about the information they find from the past. 

What is detectives?

100

Is what makes an event happen 

What is cause?

200

This is the study of human culture and how it develops over time.

What is anthropology? 

200

biographies, history books, and textbooks

What is secondary sources?

200

These lines circle the Earth PARALLEL to the Equator, they measure the distance north or south of the Equator in degrees.

What is latitude?

200

Can be proved or observed

What is a fact?

200

Is the result of a cause.

What is effect?
300

This is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind. 

What is archeology?

300

.gov

.edu

.org

What is URL? (pg. HT28).

300

These lines circle the Earth from Pole to Pole, they measure distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.

What is longitude?

300

Is a personal belief or conclusion.

What is an opinion?

300

The unbroken patterns in history

What is continuity?

400

This is the study of prehistoric times.

What is palentology. 

400

Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Region

What is the five themes of geography? (pg. HT10-11)

400

This is the exact spot where a line of latitude crosses a line of longitude. 

What is an absolute location?

400

These can be letters, diaries, and speeches that state what a person thinks about another person or event. 

What is sources?

400

To present the ideas or words of another person as your own without offering credit to the source. 

What is plagiarism?

500

This is the study of the origins of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. 

What is etymology?

500

The world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of geography

What is the six essential elements? (pg. HT12)

500

Using mathematics, mapmakers have created different types of these, or ways of showing the Earth on a flat sheet of paper.

What is map projections?

500
This is a one-sided, unexamined view that can be an unreasonable judgment about people and events. 

What is a bias?

500

All Americans have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

What is the Rights of Citizenship?