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social studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| historian | people who study events in the past |
| timeline | a line marked off with a series of events and dates |
| chronology | a list of orderred events in which they ocurred |
| period | a length of time siingled out because of a specific event or devolpenment that happened during a time |
| prehistory | the time before humans inveneted writing |
| primary source | information that came from directly from the person who experienced the event |
| artifact | an object made by a human being such as a tool or weapon |
| secondary source | information that comes from a person who didn't expierience the event |
| bias | an unfair prefrence for dislike of something |
| archaeology | the scientific study of ancient cultures through examanation of artifacts and other evidence |
| oral tradition | a community's cultral and hhistorical background passed down spoken in stories and songs |
| anthropology | the study of human kind in all aspects especially devolpement and culture |
| absolute location | the absolute right on point location of one place |
| relative location | a location of a placereltive to another place is another way to describe a location |
| movement | how peopl,goods,and ideas get from one place to another |
| place | refers to the mix of humans and nonhuman features at a given location |
| region | an area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate,landforms,population, or history |
| human-environmemt interaction | how humans affect there environment or there natural surrondings and how the environment affects them |
| key | explains shadings and symbols on the map |
| locator map | shows a larger area than the main map |
| scale bar | a space on the map that represents a given distance on the land |
| compass rose | a diagram of a compass showing direction |