Geography
Primary & Secondary Sources
Time Lines
Maps
Vocab
100

Volcanoes, canyons, forests, peninsulas, mountains, and more are examples of this

What are landforms?

100

An object made by a human being

What is an artifact?

100

A period of 10 years

What is a decade?

100

This kind of map shows the names and borders of countries.

What is a political map?

100

A large block of time with no definitive beginning or end

What is an Age or an Era?

200

Found by dividing the number of people by the land area.

What is Population Density?

200

Created after an event usually with a broad view of background information

What is a Secondary Source?

200

The non-religious initials on timelines for before and after the birth of Christ

What are B.C.E. and C.E.?

200

Used to refer to one-half of the globe when divided into North and South or East and West.

What is a hemisphere?

200

The study of the past by looking at what people left behind

What is archaeology?

300

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, and Regions

What are the 5 themes of geography?

300

Something that shows proof or an indication that something is true

What is evidence?

300

What A.D. stands for.

What is Anno Domini?

300

These lines measure up to 90 degrees both ways.

What are lines of latitude?
300

To present someone's work as your own without giving that person credit.

What is plagiarism?

400

People that grow just enough food to feed their family

What is subsistence farming?

400

An unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events.

What is bias?

400

The first year of the 16th century

What is the year 1500?

400

Connects the North and South poles at 0 degrees longitude

What is the Prime Meridian?

400

The study of human culture and how it develops over time.

What is Anthropology?
500

It shows the average temperature and precipitation in a place over a year of time

What is a climagraph? 

500

A newspaper from World War 2 era would be considered this

What is a primary source?

500

The name of the calendar we use today.

What is the Gregorian calendar?

500

The unit of measure for Longitude and Latitude 

What are degrees?

500

Shows "data points" on a map using color as the key

What is a choropleth?