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Sams History

6th Grade World History Test

QuestionAnswer
What are the seven continents ? North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antartica and Australia
What are the major oceans ? Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Southern
What are Cartographers People who make maps
What is Longitude ? A line that runs North to South
What is Latitude ? A line that runs East to West
What is a Coordinate ? The latitude and longitude address of a place on a map
What is a hemisphere ? Half the Earth
Where is the Prime Meridian located ? Located at 0° longitude
Where is the Equator located Located at 0° latitude
What is the earth divided into? Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What does the equator divide the earth into? Northern and Southern hemisphere
What are the intersecting pattern formed from all of the latitude and longitude lines is a known as? Geographic
What do maps have on them to show which direction the map is facing? compass rose
What are the cardinal directions? north, south, east and west
What are intermediate directions? northeast, northwest, southeast, and southeast
How do you see how long an event lasted between two dates that are both AD or both BC you do the following: If both are AD = Subtract If both are BC= Subtract
How do you see how long an event lasted between two dates that fall in a combination of AD and BC you do the following: 1 BC date and 1 AD date = ADD
What is Circa? part of a time span. used when we do not know the exact AD year.
What is a decade? ten years
What is a century? 100 years
How do you figure out the name of a century htat ends with "00" You look at the first two numbers of that year and that is the answer
The name of the century for the year 2000 AD 20th Century
To figure out the name of the century of a year that doesnt end with "00" you look at the first two numbers of that year and add one (+1)
Name of the century for the year 2009 21 Century AD
What do you do when a year only has 3 numbers add zeroes to the front to make it four numbers
What would 951 BC be changed to? 0591
What would 4 AD be changed to? 0004 AD
Millennium 1000 years
Century 100 years
Score 20 years
Decade 10 years
History is a record of the past
Geography is a science that deals with the location of living and non living things on earth and the way they affect one another (study of people, places and the environment)
government is the people and groups within a society that have the authority to make laws, to make sure they are carried out and to settle disagreements
citizen legal member of a country
migrate means to move from one area to settle in another
economics is the study of how resources are managed in the production, exchange and use of goods and services
scarcity is a word economists use to describe the conflict between people's desires and limited resources. You might say that water is scarce in the desert which means there is a limited amount of water there.
culture is the beliefs, customs, art, and ways of living that a group of people share.
archaeology the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. It is the scientific study of material remains (as fossils relics, artificats, and monuments) of past human lifeand activitie
anthropology is the study of humankind, in particular. It is the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relations to physical character, environemental and social relations and culture.
timelines used to organize events from the past into chronological order
chronilogical arranging events from the earliest time to the most recent.
A.D. Anno domini - "in the year of the lord" after jesus christ
BC
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