Vocabulary

5 Themes of Geog.

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People who don’t have a permanent home

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Who are nomads?

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Changing to fit your environment

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What is adapting?

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Remains of something made by humans (like a

weapon or tool)

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What is an artifact?

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Line that places events in the order they occur

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What is a timeline ?

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Time period before written history

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What is prehistory?

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Theme that includes absolute and relative

What is location?

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Theme that includes human and physical

features

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What is Place?

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Theme that describes how people, goods, and ideas

are transported

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What is movement?

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Theme that describes how humans adapt to or

change their surroundings.

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What is human environment interaction?

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Theme that describes what characteristics a

place shares with other places around it.

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What is region?

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The first (almost) completed fossil of a

human is called…

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What is LUCY?

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Neolithic humans were the first to domesticate

plants and animals. What does this mean?

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What is taming or training them for human use?

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Who was the first person to discover human remains in Africa?

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Who is Mary Leaky?

When was the first time fire was “created” by

humans?

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What is Paleolithic era?

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Besides fire, list three “inventions” during the

Paleolithic Era.

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Language, Stone tools, cave drawings

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This type of map shows boundaries of states and

countries.

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What is a political map?

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This kind of source did not experience an event. They are just passing

along the story.

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What is a secondary source?

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This kind of map shows things like rivers and

mountain ranges.

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What is a physical map?

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Giving an address is an example of what kind of

location?

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What is absolute location?

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This kind of map shows how patterns or themes

are spread out (population, rainfall, etc.)

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What is a special purpose map?

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Farming was a revolution. What does that mean?

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What is a complete change in the way of life?

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“New Stone Age”

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What is NEOLITHIC?

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Humans migrated from Africa into Europe and

Asia. What does migrate mean?

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What is to leave your home and go somewhere else to live?

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The food you eat, the way you dress, and the way

you speak are examples of what kinds of features

(think 5 themes of Geography)?

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What are Human Features?

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Besides farming, give two “inventions” or

discoveries during the Neolithic Era.

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What are building of cities, establishing civilizations,

domesticating animals, bronze and metal tools?

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