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Unit 1 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| history | the study of past events |
| topical | information categorized into topics rather than chronically |
| chronicalgical | events placed in order of when they took place |
| era | a period of time that is assoiated with a particular person event or quialty |
| landform | shapes& types of land |
| plate tectonics | the theory that the earth suface is divided ionto a number of plates indepedatly over hot liquid rock new lad patterns and causing |
| climate | the avrage weather of a place over a period of 20-30 years |
| vegetation | plats life that grows in a area |
| culture | the customs ideas beleafs and skill of ppl |
| physical geography | the study of a land and its features. |
| human geography | leanering about ppl and thier ways |
| globe | a change in elavation |
| relief | a change a elavtion |
| physical map | a map that higlights many of the antural featurs of a place such as a mountains plains rivers and alkes by using color and shading |
| political map | a map that shows featurs of a palce such as a countiries staes and cities. |
| drought | long periods in witch rainfalls at a much lower rate than usal and may cuase server damage crops |
| irrigation | an artifical way to supply water to crops |
| hunnters gathers | ppl who survaive by serching for wild plants and animals to eat |
| Beringia | during the ice age russia was connected to alaska by a bridge of ice |
| artifacts | objects made by humas and used by archaeologists to learn about the past human |
| archaeologists | sientist who study edivance left by early ppl learn abou tthir culture |
| pictographs | pitures drawn of painted on cave wall ledges and cliffs |
| petroglyphs | carvings made in rock |
| pueblos | large native american homes made of adobe |
| missionaries | ppl sent to a place to convert the local polulation to a new relgion |
| tipi | cone shaped tents made of poles cooverd in animal skins used a dwelling by some native americans groups |
| migrate | the abillity of a ppl gorup to move into and ihanit a new region |
| tribe | a number of family groups that follow the leadder and share the same terrotory & culture |
| matrilineal | descent is trced primlsly through the mother |
| adobe | a builiding matireal of mud rock clay and dry grasses shaped into bircks and used to construct pubelo dwelligns |
| reservations | land set aside buy the goverment for use idin ppls |
| indigenous people | native people to an area |
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