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Ch. 1-Lesson 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A map that shows cities, states, or countries using different types of colors in that area, what is it called? | political map |
| A map that shows bodies of water, landforms, or specific areas on a map, what is it called? | physical map |
| What is a pointer that show the north, south, west, or east directions on a map? | compass rose |
| Sometimes known as a "Legend", this explains a map's symbols, what is it called? | key |
| This part of a map shows the estimated distances from one area to another, what is it called? | scale |
| What is point of time called that is known as a period of time before people developed systems of writing and written language? | prehistory |
| What is the study of past cultures through the things that remain or are left behind? | archaeology |
| What are the objects that are found by archaeology that give them an idea of what people made long before? | artifact |
| What was a period in time in which large sheets of ice covered the Earth about 10,000 years ago? | Ice Age |
| What are large sheets of ice that dragged and spread over the Earth during the Ice Age? | glaciers |
| This time was when the Earth was breaking apart and the Bering Strait stretched from Asia to North America making a land bridge for early people to cross? | Beringia |
| What was the time about 3.5 millions years to 10,000 years ago that humans relied mostly on stones to create tools and weapons? | Stone Age |
| What is known as the way in which humans produce the items they use? | technology |
| This period in time is from 10,000 to 5,000 years later after the Old Stone Age in which technology increased from early human development? | New Stone Age |
| What is known as to tame animals for human use? | domesticate |
| What is know as an area which an archaeologist digs up artifacts, such as plant remains, tools, weapons, or findings? | excavation site |
| What is a group that does a certain type of work? | social division |
| What is extra food that grown from planting and harvesting a field from the early humans? | surplus |
| What are lines that go from left to right or right to left in a map? | latitude lines or parallel lines |
| What are lines that go up and down or down and up in a map? | longitude lines or meridians lines |
| What you call when both latitude and longitude lines touch to create a location on a map? | coodinate |
| What latitude line separates both the Northern and Southern hemispheres? | equator |
| What longitude line separates both the Western and Eastern hemispheres? | prime meridian |
| How zones are found on the Earth? | 3 |
| What the names of the 3 zones that are found on the Earth? | tropical zones, temperates zones, frigid zones |
| What is the name latitude line that is located at 23.5 degrees North Latitude on a map? | Tropic of Cancer |
| What is the name of the latitude line that is located at 23.5 degrees South Latitude on a map? | Tropic of Capricorn |
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