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social studies vocab
Question | Answer |
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What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | equater |
what is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres? | prime meridian |
Which of the following is not a state: Rhode Island, Louisiana, Sacramento, Montana? | sacramento |
who studies and creates maps of earths natrural humanmade fetures | geo grapher |
an area of sediment deposited at the mouth of the river | delta |
what are the names of the four hemispheres | Northern,Eastern,Western,Southern |
Is the the tropic of cancer north or south of the equater? | north |
the group of 48 states that are linked together | contituois |
what does a star/dot in a circle ussually mean on a map | National Capital |
what is the name given to a point of a land extending into a body of water | cape |
What are the seven continents of earth | north america,south america,africa,asiae,europe,austrailia and antartica |
what are the three types of social scientist | geographer,historion and archeoligests |
height of land above sea level | elavation |
an area of highlight flat land | plateau |
an object made or used by people in the past | artifact |
prehistoric | before written history |
relating to a ceremony,such as a religious ceremony | ritual |
a scientist who studies human development and culture | anthropologist |
a dead body | remains |
a two-footed animal | biped |
to move from one geographic region to another | migrate |
a piece of land connecting two continents | land bridge |
to train a wild animal to be useful human | domesticate |
the business of farming | agriculture |
the business of buying and selling or changing iteams | trade |
a mineral mined for its valuable uses | ore |
ancient people who lived in the geographic region of sumer | sumerians |
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks | levee |
the way civilization is orginized | social structure |
the use of tools and other inventions for practical use | technology |
a two wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse | chariots |
a person who writes | scribe |
an ancient mes-option tower | zigguart |
writing that uses wedge-shaped charecters | cuneiform |
a symbol that stands for an object | pictograph |