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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are lines of latitude? | They are lines that run east and west around the Earth. |
| What is the Tropic of Cancer? | In the Northern Hemisphere, at about latitude 23 N. |
| what are longitude lines? | They are lines that run north and south around the Earth. |
| What is the Tropic of Capricorn? | South of the Equator, at about latitude 23 S. |
| What is a Tropical Zone. | The section of earth between the Tropic of cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is called the Tropical Zone |
| what is a Torrid Zone? | The Torrid Zone is the same as the Tropical Zone |
| What is a Arctic circle? | When the sun does not rise on at least one day in our winter and does not set on at least one in summer. |
| What is a Antarctic Circle? | The Antarctic is the same as the Arctic but it is only in the Northern and the Arctic is in the Southern. |
| What is a Temperate Zone? | In the between of the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer, and between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn are known as the temperate zone. |
| What is a frigid zone? | The zones north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle are known as the Frigid zone. |
| What is a polar region? | A polar region is the same as the as the frigid zones but is just another name for it. |
| What is Axis? | The Earth's Axis is an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole. |
| What are parallel lines? | Parallel lines are the same as Latitude lines. |
| What are Meridian Lines? | Meridian lines are the same as the Longitude lines . |
| What is a Global Grid? | When Latitude and Longitude lines form a pattern pf crossed lines. |
| What is Economy? | A system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services. |
| What is a civilization? | It is a complex society that has cities, a well organized govermant, ans workers with specialized job skills. |
| What is a Resource used for? | It is a supply of something that can be used as needed. |
| What is a religion? | It is a shared belief about supernatural powers that created and rule the world. |
| What are social classes? | They are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society. |
| What is a region of the Middle east that stretches in a large, crescent shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea? | The Fertile Crescent. |
| What does the Fertile Crescent include? | Mesopotamia. |
| What type of trading system is used to exchange goods directly without using money? | A Barter. |
| What is it called when you belief in more than one God? | Polytheism. |
| What is an Irrigate? | When Sumerians used technology to irrigate or supply water to their crops. |
| What were Sumerian cities, that the temples were pyramid shaped brick towers? | they were called a Ziggurat. |
| what is an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory? | A City State. |
| A Cuneiform is a? | System of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things. |
| What is a state that contains several countries or territories? | An Empire. |
| An Ally is a what? | It is an independent state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal. |
| What is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture? | That is an Cultural Trait. |
| What was a code or set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire? | The Hammurabi's Code. |
| What is a rule of law? | It is and idea that all members of a society - even the rich and powerful - must obey the law. |
| What is an Calvary? | They are soldiers who fight while riding horses. |
| A Standing Army is what? | Is a permanent army of professional soldiers. |
| When you Tribute, you what? | You make a payment and because of that you show loyalty to a stronger power. |
| What is a Currency? | It is money that is used as a medium of exchange, usually bills or coins. |
| What is a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end? | A Stele. |
| An Import is a what? | a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country. |
| What is an Export? | It s good or service produced within a country and sold outside the countries boulders. |
| What is a Navigation? | The art of steering a ship place to place. |
| What is a Colony? | An are ruled by a distant country. |
| What is a Cultural Diffusion? | Is a spreading of cultural traits from one region to another. |
| An Alphabet is what? | It is a small set of letters or symbols, each which stands for a single stand. |