Latitude and Longitude
This imaginary horizontal line divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This type of map shows the names and borders of states, countries, and continents.
What is a political map?
BC
What is Before Christ?
Human made objects like stone tools that provide clues as to what life was like before writing was invented.
What are artifacts?
People in this era migrated to new places when the environment changed or when resources (water, animals and vegetation) became scarce.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This imaginary vertical line divides the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
This type of map shows landforms like mountains, valleys, deserts, and plains.
What is a physical map?
CE
What is Common Era?
A group's way of life consisting of language, art, religion, and family.
What is culture?
People in this era relied upon hunting and gathering to get their food.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
Where the lines of latitude and longitude intersect allows one to find the ________________ location.
What is absolute?
This item on a map shows distances. For example, one inch = 100 miles.
What is a map scale?
Definition of Anno Domini
What is in the year of our Lord?
A long period of dry, hot weather where plant become scarce and animals disappear.
What is a drought?
The saber tooth cat and the giant ground sloth are examples of animals known as __________________.
What are megafauna?
Distances between lines of longitude and between lines of latitudes are measured in these.
What are degrees?
This item on a map is used to show the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
BCE
Before Common Era
The movement of people to other places.
What is migration?
This revolution began when farming replaced hunting and gathering.
What is the agricultural revolution?
The Prime Meridian and the Equator both have a measurement of this number of degrees.
What is zero?
This is the number of hemispheres on a world map.
What is four?
100 years
What is a century?
The application of knowledge, tools, and inventions.
What is technology?
During this era, farming replaced hunting and gathering as the way to get food.
What is the Neolithic Era?