Maps
Geography
Geography
Climate
Prehistory
PrehistoryII
100
What do we use to measure distance on a map?
a scale
100
What mountain type structure is actually a vent lava and steam from the Earth's mantle?
a volcano
100
What is the name for the 7 main land forms of the Earth?
continents
100
What do we call the zone in which we find most of Africa, and South America in?
The Tropics
100
What innovation was the most impactful to earliest man?
Controlled use of fire
100
Name one animal that was domesticated by early man.
sheep, goats, chickens, dogs, cattle, donkeys, camels, bees, etc.
200
What do we use to tell directions on a map?
a compass rose
200
This is a plain in a tropic zone that is covered in grass and sparse trees.
savannah
200
This is a plain in a temperate zone covered in grass and wildflowers.
a prairie
200
What zone does most of the United States, Europe and China (and the bulk of the world's people) fall within?
The Temperate Zone
200
What do you call it when people follow their food source and never settle in one place for long?
nomadic
200
What do you call ancient man made objects that historians use to learn about history?
artifacts
300
Give two names for the horizontal lines used to organize a map.
latitude and parallels
300
What landform is a narrow strip of land that runs between two bodies of water.
an isthmus
300
This landform is surrounded on 3 sides by water.
a peninsula
300
What do we call the 66.5 degree latitude line, above which the land receives no daylight in the winter and all daylight in the summer?
The Arctic Circle
300
What innovation allowed people to stop following herds of animals for food and settle down in one place?
Crop cultivation
(Farming!)
300
What do you call the narrow waterway that is between Asia and North America?
The Bering Strait
400
Give two names that are used for the vertical lines on a map that cross at the poles and are used to organize a map.
longitude and meridian
400
Name the 4 oceans.
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic
400
Name the 7 continents
N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
400
Name the latitude lines that are found at 23.5 degrees north and south latitude.
The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
400
What do you call animals that people would raise for food and fur?
domesticated
400
How did ancient man leave an account of his life in the prehistoric world?
Rock art
(pictographs and petroglyphs)
500
What is the name of the line that runs through Greenwich, England and is given the distinction of being zero degrees longitude?
the prime meridian
500
What is the movement of sections of the Earth's crust that has moved our continents over millions of years?
plate tectonics
500
Name the current that comes down from the Arctic circle which brings frigid water and air to north east Canada.
The Labrador Stream
500
What is the warm ocean current called that flows from the Gulf of Mexico(America) to Europe.
The Gulf Stream
500
How did early man (and woman!) get from Asia to North America
They walked across the Beringia Land Bridge
500
What is the mass of ice called that covered the northern parts of the continent during the ice age?
glaciers