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unit 1 Vocabulary
tx. history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| history | the study of past |
| tropical | information categorized into topics rather than chronologically |
| chronologically | events placed in order of when they took place |
| era | a period of time that is associated with a particular person, event or qualeti |
| land form | shapes and types of land |
| plate tectonics | the theory that the earth surface is devided into a number of plates wich float independently over hot liquid rock forming new land patterns and causing earthquakes |
| climate | the averages weather of a place over a period of 20-30 years |
| vegetation | plant life that grows in an area |
| culture | the customs ideas beliefs and skills of a people |
| physical geography | the study of a land its features |
| human geography | learning about people and their ways |
| globe | the most accurate picture of the earth it is a sphere with a map of earth printed on it |
| relief | a change in elevetion |
| physical map | the study of a land its features |
| political map | a map that shows features of a place such as countries states and cities |
| drought | long periods in which rainfalls at a much lower rate than usea and may cause severe damage to cropsl |
| irraigation | an artifical way to supply water |
| hunter gathers | people who survive by searching for wild plants and animals to eat |
| indigenous people | native people to an area |
| beringia | during the ice age russia was connected to alaska by a bridge of ice |
| artifact | objects made by humans and used by archaegolist the past human culter |
| archaeologists | scientist who study evedince left by early people to learn about their culter |
| pictographs | pictures drawn of painted on cave walls ledges on cliffs |
| petroglyphs | carvin made in rocks |
| pueblos | large native amiracas homes made of adobe |
| missionaries | people sent to a place to convert the local population to a new religion |
| tipi | cone shaped tents made of poles coverd in animal skin used as a dweling by some native americans |
| migrate | the abiliti of a people group to move into and inhabit a new region |
| tribe | a number of famely groups that follow the same leader and shear the same territory and culture |
| matriniel | descent is traced primarely through the mother |
| adobe | a building materials of mud |
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