Five Themes of Geography
What’s the difference between absolute location and relative location?
Absolute location is the exact spot on Earth (like coordinates or an address).
Relative location describes where something is compared to other places (like "next to the school").
This type of map uses contour lines to represent elevation and terrain, helping hikers and engineers understand the shape of the land.
Topographic Map
What word means the time when people started farming, building homes, and living in villages?
Neolithic Era
What is a timeline?
A timeline is a line that shows events in the order they happened, from first to last.
What big change happened during the Neolithic Era?
People started farming and living in one place instead of moving around.
What are two ways people change the environment, and two ways they adapt to it? (HEI) you can only say adapt to the cold or hot once!!
Change: Building roads, cutting down trees.
Adapt: Wearing warm clothes in winter, using fans in hot places.
people made farms and stayed in one place. But living close together made it easier for tiny bugs to make people sick, for some people to take more than others, and for big groups to tell others what to do — even though it looked like life was getting better. What time is this
Neolithic Era
What word means the time when people hunted animals, used stone tools, and moved from place to place?
Why do we use timelines in history?
We use timelines to see when things happened and how events are connected over time.
Why did people build homes in the Neolithic Era?
Because they stayed near their farms and didn’t need to travel to find food.
Why is the movement of people, goods, and ideas important for understanding how cultures change?
Because when people travel or share things, they bring new foods, languages, and inventions — helping cultures grow and mix.
This type of map might explain why Tokyo looks crowded while the Sahara looks empty—even from space.
Population Map
What are the four main directions on a compass called?
Cardinal Directions
If an event happened in 500 BCE and another in 200 BCE, which came first?
500 BCE came first, because in BCE, the numbers go backward as time moves forward.
What new jobs appeared during the Neolithic Era?
Jobs like farming, building, and making pottery became common.
How do landforms, climate, and buildings help describe the “place” of a city?
They show what makes the city special — like mountains, hot weather, or tall buildings.
This time came before farms, before houses, before bosses — when people moved, made tools, and tried to stay alive.
What do we call something made by a person who saw or lived through an event that wrote about the event they saw.
Primary Source
What does it mean if two events are on the same timeline but far apart?
It means the events happened a long time apart from each other.
How did people get food during the Paleolithic Era?
They hunted animals and gathered plants.
Name the 5 Themes of Geography
Place,Theme,Movement,HEI,Reigon
What do we call the way we walk now?
Bipedalisim
What do we call something written or made after an event by someone who didn’t see it happen?
Secondary Source
What do the numbers on a timeline show?
They show the years or dates when events happened.
What kind of tools did people use in the Paleolithic Era?
They used simple tools made from stone, bone, and wood.