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Social Studies
5 themes of Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5 themes of geography | Place, Region, Human-Enviornment Interactions, Location, and Movement |
| What does PRILM stand for? | Place Region Interactions Location Movement |
| Includes Physical and Human Differences | Place |
| Grouped together in general terms | Region |
| How people and the enviornment interact | Human-Enviornment Interactions |
| where a place is. includes General and Absolute | Location |
| transportation of people,ideas, and things | Movement |
| The 5 themes of Geography were originated by the.... | National Geographic Society |
| The study of the earth and everything on it | Geography |
| the study of landforms and waterforms | physical geography |
| the study of people and their culture | human geography |
| the study of the past | history |
| the years before Christ was born | B.C |
| refers to the years after Christ was born | "Anno Domini" or A.D |
| "about or around. used with dates historians are unsure of | circa |
| occasionally used in place of B.C. stands for "before common era" | B.C.E |
| occasionally used in place of A.D. stands for "after common era" | C.E |
| scientists that study people and societies | Anthropologists |
| a group of people who have a common origin and share lauguage and history | ethnic group |
| scientists who study organized groups of people | sociologists |
| a group of people whose culture, race, or ethnic origin is different from that most people in a region | minority group |
| a group of people whose culture, race, or ethnic origin is greater than half the total | majority groups |
| scientists who study the interaction of people and society | social scientists |
| 4 characteristics of culture | shared, learned, symbolic, adaptive |
| shows cardinal and intermediate directions | compass rose |
| can be used to pinpoint locaton using the map's grid system | latitude/longitued coordinates |
| used to arrange dates in sequential order | timeline |
| shows relationship between distance inmap and distance in reality | scale bar |
| explains what thesymbols or colors on a map mean | key/legend |