Social Studies Ch. 1 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Geography | study of Earth’s physical features and the living things that inhabit it |
| Primary source- | -descriptions of events by someone who witnessed or lived through that event |
| Secondary Source- | created by people who were not present at an event |
| Plagiarism- | -the presentation of the ideas or words of another person as your own without giving that person credit- ex copying someone elses words |
| Spatial- | refers to the earth’s features in terms of their locations, shapes, and relationships to each other-ex.study the size and shape of cities , states, and countries |
| Latitude | imaginary lines on a map that run east to west-Equator |
| Longitude- | -imaginary lines on a map that run north to south-ex go from North Pole to South Pole-Prime Meridian |
| Hemisphere | the equator and the prime meridian each divide Earth in half- we live in the Northern Hemisphere |
| Key | symbols, colors and lines |
| Scale bar- | relationships between distances on the map and on the earth |
| Compass rose- | directions |
| Politicals | -human made such as boundaries between countries |
| Physical-s | natural features-mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes |
| Thematic | more specialized info such as kind of plants |
| Road map- | how to get from one place to another when your GPS wont work |
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