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Unit 1 Lessons 1-2
Vocabulary from Unit 1 Lessons 1-2
Question | Answer |
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history | the study of people and events of the past |
historian | a person who studies the past |
primary source | firsthand information about an event, a place, or a time period |
secondary source | records of an event written by someone who was not there at the time |
chronological order | puting events in the sequence in which they occurred |
timeline | a diagram that shows the order in which events happened |
land bridge | dry land that appeared between Asia and Alaska during the Ice Age |
immigrant | a person who moves to one country from another |
colony | a group of people who settle in a distant land, but are ruled by their homeland |
Constitution | the document that is the basis for the United States government |
plantation | a large farm on which crops are raised by workers who live on the farm |
geography | the study of people, places, and the environment |
environment | the land, water, climate, plants, and animals of an area; surroundings |
spatial | where a place is located and its physical relationship to other places, people and environments |
absolute location | an exact or specific description of where a place is located, often expressed usint latitude and longitude |
relative location | a general description of where a place lies, often expressed relative to another place |
place | the human and phusical features of a specific location that make it unique |
region | areas that share common physical or human characteristics |
latitude | the distance north or south of the equator |
longitude | the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |