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Unit 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| History | The study of past events |
| Topical | Information cetegorized into topics rather than chronologically |
| Chronological | Events placed in order of when they took place |
| Era | A period of time that is associated with a particular person event or quality |
| Landforms | shapes and types of land |
| Plate Tectonics | The theory that the earth's surface is divided into a number of plates which float Independently over hot liquid rock forming new land patterns and causing earthquakes |
| climate | The average weather of a place over a period of 20-30 years |
| Vegetation | Plants life that grows in an area |
| Culture | The customs ideas beliefs and skills of a people |
| Physical Geopgraphy | The study of a land and its features |
| Human Geography | Leaning about people and theirs ways |
| Globe | The most accurate "picture" of the Earth is is a sphere with a map of earth printed on it |
| Relief | A change in elevation |
| physical Map | A map that hig |
| 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 usual and may cause severe damage to craps |
| irrigation | an artificial way to supply water to crops |
| hunter gatherers | people who survive by searching for wild plants and animals to eat |
| indigenous people | Native people to an are |
| Beringia | during the ice Age Russia was connected to Alaska by a bridge of ice |
| artifacts | objects made by humans and used by archaeologist to learn about past human cultures |
| archaeologist | scientists who study evidence left by early people to learn about their culture |
| pictographs | pictographs drawn of of painted on cave walls ledges and cliffs |
| petroglyphs | carvings made in rocks |
| pueblos | larges Native America homes made of Adobe |
| missionaries | people sent to a place to convert the local population to a new religions |
| tipi | cone shaped tents made of poles covered in animals skins used a a dwelling by some Native American groups |
| migrate | the ability of people group to move into and inhabit a new region |
| tribe | a number of family groups that follow the same leader and share territory culture |
| natrilineal | descent is traced primarily through the mother |
| Adode | a building material of mud rocks clay and dry grass shaped into bricks and used to construct pueblo dwellings |
| reservations | land set aside by the government for use by Indian peoples. |