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A place can also be in either the Western or Eastern Hemisphere.What does that mean? | It is in one of the halves on either side of the imaginary north south line known as the prime meridian. |
What is the meaning of Frigid Zone? | The zones north of the Artic Circle and south of the Antartic Circle are known as the Frigid Zones. |
Sping,summer,fall or autum, and winter are caused by two things | The rotation of Earth around the sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis. |
What lines run through longitude,meridias | North,and south around Earth. |
Latitude and longitude form a pattern of crossed lies what are they called? | Global grid |
What is the exact way to locate places on Earth | By using imaginary lines of latitude and longitude. |
What is the meaning of axis? | Is a imaginary line between the North pole and the South pole. |
The section of Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of capicorn is known as what? | The tropical zone or the torrid zone |
What is a physical map? | Shading to indicate where mountain ranges are located. |
What is a locater? | A small globe or flat map. |
A map of this kind is called a? | Relief map. |
A compass rose is what? | Is a pointer for cardinal directions. |
A scale help you for? | Esstimate real distance on Earth |
On globes these lines are usually shown what? | At intervals of 10 degrees or more |
A compass rose also shows what? | Intermediate directions. |
What is a Economy? | An Economy is the system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services. |
What is the meaning of Civilization? | A civilization is a complex society that has cities,a well organized government and workers with specialized job skills. |
What is a supply of something that can be used as needed? | A Resource. |
A third common feature of a civilization was established what? | Religion |
What is the meaning of Social Class | They are groups of people that occupy different ranks or levels in society. |
What is a Fertile Crescent? | Is a region of the Middle East that stretches in a large , crescent shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. |
What is a trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money? | Barter. |
What is a Mesopotamia? | The Fertile Crescent includes Mesopotamia a wide flat plain in present day Iraq. |
What is a Polytheism? | The belief in more than one god. |
What is a Ziggurat? | In larger Sumerian cities temples were pyramids shaped brick towers known as Ziggurat. |
What is a City State? | A City State is a an independence that includes a city and its surroundings territory. |
What is a Cuneiform? | Is a system of writing that uses triangular shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things. |
What is a Empire? | A Empire is a state containing several countries or territories. |
What is a Ally? | An Ally is an idependent state that works with other states. |
What is a Cultural Trait? | A Cultural Trait is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture. |
What is the meaning of Hammurabi's Code? | A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire. |
What is a Rule of Law? | It a idea that all members of a society? |
What is a Cavalry? | Soldiers who fight while riding horses. |
What is a Standing Army? | Is a permanent army of professional soldiers. |
What is a Tribute? | Is a payment made to show loyalty to a stronger power. |
What is a Currency? | Is a money that is used as a medium of exchange usually bills or coins. |
What is a Stele? | Is a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end. |
What is a Important? | Is a good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country |
What is a Export? | Is a good or service produced within a country. |
What is a Navigator? | The art of steering a ship from place to place. |
What is a Colony? | Is an area ruled by distance country. |
What is a Cultural Diffusion? | Is the spreading of culture traits from one region to another. |
What is a Alphabet? | Is a small set of letters or symbols. |