History 1
This means understanding events and people based on the accepted ideas nd values of the time period being studied.
perspective
This is when one person has an idea or thought and believes only their idea or thoughts are correct.
bias
This is the study of the earth's water, people, animals, plants, and lands.
geography
These are places on earth that have common features.
region
A small river or stream that flows into a large river or lake.
tributary
This is a manmade location that is used to store a large body of water.
reservoir
These are objects made and used by people in the past.
artifacts
This is an account of an event or person from the viewpoint of someone who was not there.
secondary source
These are lines around the earth that measure distances north and south.
latitude
hemisphere
This is an elevated flat land that extends from a mountain range
plateau
This is an area that has specific plants and animals as well as unique physical features.
province
These are first-hand (eyewitness) accounts or original objects and documents form the past.
primary source
This is when people pass on information about events that have occurred in the past.
oral history
These lines measure the distances between East and West.
longitude
This is the location of a place based on other objects or places that are near or around it.
relative location
This is elevated land that looks like a tabletop.
mesa
This is a field of dried lava.
malpais
A person who studies past events
historian
A person who studies the earth in its entirety.
geographer
This is the exact position of a place based on lines of longitude and latitude.
absolute location
This is a line around the earth that goes through Greenwich, England
prime meridian
This is a very small piece of elevated flat land that looks like a tabletop.
butte
This is the study of the characteristics of human population, distribution, and vital statistics.
demography
anthropologist
A person who has the job of digging up old rtifacts
archeologist
The state of New Mexico is located in the _?_ hemisphere.
Northwestern hemisphere
This is the line around the earth that represents zero degrees latitude.
equator
30,000 square miles of land located near eastern New Mexico and Western Texas.
LLano Estacado
The place that separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton where Albuquerque and Las Cruces are located.
Rio Grande Rift