Vocabulary
Maps and Globes
Latitude and longitude
Time
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100
Firsthand evidence
What is a PRIMARY SOURCE?
100
Shows states, roads, cities, and borders.
What is a POLITICAL MAP?
100
The Equator divides the Earth into these hemispheres.
What are NORTHERN and SOUTHERN?
100
10 years
What is a DECADE?
100
This is an example of what type of map.
What is a TOPOGRAPHIC (or CONTOUR) MAP?
200
The study of the preserved remains of plants or animals (otherwise known as fossils).
What is PALEONTOLOGY?
200
Shows true sizes of continents and shapes of bodies of water.
What is a GLOBE?
200
Lines of latitude and longitude are real lines.
What is FALSE?
(They are imaginary lines)
200
100 years
What is a CENTURY?
200
The calendar that started counting from the founding of Rome.
What is the JULIAN CALENDAR?
300
Trying to change someone's opinion based on your beliefs.
What is BIAS?
300
This map shows the landscape of an area.
What is a PHYSICAL MAP?
300
The Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn are lines of
What is LATITUDE?
300
10 centuries or 100 years
What is a MILLENNIUM?
300
The essential element of human systems questions
What is "How have humans impacted the world?"
400
The study of human culture and how it has developed.
What is ANTHROPOLOGY?
400
Climate maps, population maps, and and language maps are examples of these.
What are THEME or SPECIAL PURPOSE MAPS?
400
How geographers pinpoint a location.
What is USE LATITUDE & LONGITUDE?
400
Before writing or before a written record.
What is PREHISTORY?
400
The Gregorian calendar started dating events from this event.
What is the BIRTH OF JESUS?
500
The study of artifacts or objects from past human life.
What is ARCHAEOLOGY?
500
Elements needed to have a good map.
What are: compass rose, title, map key, scale, locator map?
500
A hemisphere
What is a HALF SPHERE OF THE EARTH?
500
A time period with similar characteristics.
What is an ERA?
500
The amount of time between when the Old Kingdom began and the New Kingdom ends.
What is 1530 YEARS?