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11754-2015
Culture Unit Test - Wednesday Oct. 28, 2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Primary Sources | An artifact that was created when the event took place |
| Secondary Source | An artifact that took place after the event happened. |
| Archaeologists | A person that studies the remains or fossils of past cultures |
| Excavate | To dig up out of the ground. |
| Artifacts | Objects made by people in the past |
| Paleolithic Era(Old Stone Age) | Also known as the Old Stone Age. The period of time when people used simple stone tools. |
| Hunters-gathers | People that hunted animals and also gathered food(plants, berries, apples) to eat from the forests. |
| Technology of Stone Age People | Technology is stone knives, axes, spears, arrows with stone points. |
| Flaking | To shape a soft stone by hitting it with another hard stone. Chip away pieces of the stone edges to make it sharp. |
| Fire and Shelter | Stone Age People used fire for cooking, to keep warm and light at night. They learned how to make a shelter to sleep in. |
| Better Hunting Tools | Stone Age People used and created a spear thrower and also a bow and arrow to hunt animals that were far away. |
| Metals | Stone Age People discovered they could use cooper to make stronger metal for tools. Metal is stronger than rocks/stone. |
| Migrate | Move from place to place to live. |
| Neolithic Era(New Stone Age) | This is the time after the stone age when people began to settle/live in one place(or permanently). Called the New Stone Age |
| Agriculture | This means to farm. Grow foods |
| Domesticate | To train an animal or plant to be useful to people. |
| Surplus | To have more than you need. An extra supply of something. |
| Specialize | To do particular kinds of work. A pitcher just pitches. A first baseman just play first base. |
| Civilization | A culture that has developed systems. Religion, Rules, Government, Language. |
| Catal Huyuk | One of the world's first cities. The houses had thick brick walls. Flat Roofs. No streets, No doors. People entered through their roof climbing down ladders. |
| Reading Time Lines Page 64 and 65. Also calculate | Reading Time Lines Page 64 and 65. Also calculate |
| Latitude(parallels) | Lines that run east to west. The equator is at zero degrees. |
| Longitude(meridians) | Lines that run north to south. Prime Meridian is at zero degrees |
| Distribution Map | A map that shows how people, languages, religion, rainfall or other information is spread out over the map. |
| Historical map | A map that shows information about the past or where past events took place. |
| Elevation Map | Shows the elevation of the land |
| Physical Map | A map that shows earths naturals features. |
| Relief on a map | Shows shading on a map |
| Political Map | A map that shows capital cities, states, countries and other political information. |
| Flashback | To think of something that happened in the past. |
| Foreshadow | Something that will happen in the future. Hints of what will happen next |
| Parts of Plot | Exposition, Rising, Action, Climax, Falling, Action/Resolution |
| Exposition | the first stage of the story where we find out who the characters are and what happened. |
| Rising | the second stage of the story where you find out what happened or what the conflict will be. |
| Action | what the story is about or the main event |
| Climax | The most interesting part of the story |
| Falling | what happens after the climax or most interesting part of the story |
| action/resolution | how the story ends |
| External conflict | A character struggles against an outside force |
| Internal conflict | A character struggles against something in their mind. Try to make a decision what to do. |
| plot | What happens in the story |
| setting | time and place when story occurs |
| External Conflict | Person vs person; Person vs nature; Person vs Scoiety |
| Internal Conflcit | Person vs self |
| time line | A time line is a diagram of events arranged in the order in which they took place. |
| century | 100 Year time period |
| decade | 10 year time period |
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