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6th EE Intro
Question | Answer |
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Geography | The study of Earth's environment and how it shapes people's lives and how Earth is shaped by people's activities. |
climate | The weather pattern of an area over a long period of time. |
values | Ideals of beliefs that guide the way people live. |
outline | A plan for organizing written information about a subject |
oral history | Spoken records, including stories, that have been passed from one generation to the next |
physical regions | An area with physical features that set it apart from neighboring areas. |
culture | The way of life of a group of people at a particular time, including their daily habits, beleifs and arts. |
customs | A way of living that people of the same culture practice regularly over time. |
sources | Anything that provides information or evidence. |
artifacts | An object made by someone in the past. |
primary sources | A first-hand account of an event or an artifact created during the period of history being studied. |
secondary source | A record of the past, based on information from primary sources. |
archaelogists | A person who studies the remains of past cultures. |
excavate | To dig or scoop out Earth. |
genes | One of the tiny units of a cell of an animal or plant that determines the characteristics that an offspring inherits from its parent or parents. |