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Question | Answer |
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Which way do lines of latitude run? | Right to left or left to right |
What is the highest latitude line degree? | 90 degrees |
What is 0 degrees latitude called? | The Equator |
Which way do lines of longitude run? | up and down or down and up |
What is 0 degrees longitude called? | The Prime Meridian |
What is the highest longitude lines can go? | 180 degrees |
What is the 180 degrees longitude line called? | The International Dateline |
How many zones of latitude are on the Earth? | 3 |
What are the zones of latitude called? | Tropical zones, Temperate zones, Frigid zones |
What is a Political Map? | A map that displays colored states, countries, or boundaries. |
What is a Physical Map? | A map that show landforms, mountain ranges, or bodies of water. |
What is a Compass Rose? | The pointer that describe which way is north, south, east, and west. |
What is a scale on a map? | It measures distance on a map. |
Early man was said to had started in Africa and migrated to the Americas using what from Alaska? | Bering Strait |
The Mesopotamians started the first written language known as ___. | Cuneiform |
When Hammurabi came to power, he wrote a set of laws for the land called the______. | Code of Hammurabi |
What were huge pyramid like structures that took years to build? | Ziggurats |
The ___were the second civilization that occurred in the Middle East. | Egyptians |
What were the leaders of the Egyptian people and they were worshipped as gods? | Pharaoh |
The Egyptians constructed _____to honor their Pharaohs and have their riches and remains left to rest in peace. | pyramids |
From the written language, the Egyptians started picture writings known as__________. | hieroglyphics |
The most dominant religion in India is_____________. | Hinduism |
Hinduism started with the religious beliefs of the ________________who lived in the Indus River Valley. | Aryan people |
Hinduism is a religion with many gods, it is considered a ________. | polytheist religion |
In India, every Hindu is traditionally a member of a _____, or a lifelong social group into which he or she is born. | Caste system |
Egyptians were also very religious and believed in the_______. | afterlife |
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 is known as the worship of many gods in a religion? | polytheism |
What was known as the water source of Egypt which is also the longest river in the world? | The Nile River |
What were the sources to the civilization of Mesopotamia? | The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
In ancient Egypt, those responsible for using hieroglyphics to record important information and maintain records were called _________. | scribes |
Who is the 1st Egyptian Pharaoh that was a women that took control after her husband died, and rule greatly in trade and was an era of peace in the Egypt? | Hatshepsut |
What "god" was the Pharaoh of Egypt part of which made the people of Egypt believe that they were loyal to him? | Horus the god of the sky |
What was the name of Hammurabi's law of the region? | The code of Hammurabi |
Known as the Fertile Crescent, this place is also known as the land between the two rivers, what is it called? | Mesopotamia |
Early man was said to had started in _______ and migrated to ___________using the Bering Strait from Alaska. | North Africa, North America |