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6th Grade SS Quarterly 1 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the ways people live, think, believe, and feel | culture |
| long established beliefs that have been passed on from generation to generation | customs/ traditions |
| beliefs that guide the way people live | values |
| an area or division that has definable characteristics (similar) | region |
| a person who studies the past by looking at what people have left behind | archeologist |
| a first hand account of an event, a person's life, or a moment in time | primary source |
| written or created after the original event or moment in time | secondary source |
| a story passed down by word of mouth, it is how history was kept "alive" in cultures that didn't have written language | oral history |
| farming and cultivation of the soil for growing for growing crops and food | agriculture |
| the process of taming animals and keeping them on a farm | domestication |
| refers to jobs that people in the community do because they are good at them | specialization |
| a housing or shelter that is in a permanent place | permanent housing |
| when you have an extra supply of something | surplus |
| the exchange of goods or services between groups | trade |
| the society, culture, and way of a particular area | civilization |
| a map that shows the political divisions such as national or state boundaries, cities, and capitals | political map |
| a map that shows information about the past or where past events took place | historical map |
| a map that shows how something is spread throughout an area | distribution map |
| a map that shows shading to repre4sent mountains, hilly areas, and flat areas | relief map |
| a map or height above sea level shows land elevations, | elevation map |
| somethimes called a legend - it shows symbols and what they represent on a map | map key |
| frames the area on a map to draw your attention to it | locator |
| where one place is in relation to another - you look at one location and determine where the sedcond location is compared to the first (north, south, east, or west) | relative location |
| the latitude and longitude of a place | absolute location |
| also called the Stone Age - it was a time when people used stone to make tools and weapons | Paleolithic Age |
| the time when there was a shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture | Neolithic Age |
| the technology that was used during the Paleolithic Age to make tools | flaking |