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Five themes
Five themes
23
History
9th Grade
06/13/2008

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What are the 5 themes of geography?
Definition
Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental interaction, Movement
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What does location refer to?
Definition

Where something is in relation to something else. Latitude and Longitude.

 

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What does Place refer to?
Definition

The special features of a place that make it unique.

Includes: topography,climate, natural resouces.

 

Ex. New York State has the garnet stone as a natural rescource.

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What does Region refer to?
Definition
An area that shares common features.
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What does Human-Environment Interation refer to?

Definition

How people/ land effect the land/ people located in a place.

 

Ex. People farming, building cities and irrigating land.

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What does Movement refer to?
Definition

Trading and natural resouces of an area.

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What are the seven elements of culture?
Definition
Social, Economic, Political, Language, Religion, Arts, Literature, Customs, Traditions
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What is a primary resource, give 5 examples.

Definition

An artifact made in the time period being studied.

 

Ex.....variable...

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What is a secondary resource? Give 5 examples.

Definition

One made about the time period.

 

Ex........Variable..

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What are the tools of the historians?

Definition
Primary sources, Secondary Sources, Artifacts, Scientific Method & Research, Oral Tradition.
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What is an artifact? Give 5 examples.
Definition

Items found that were made in the time period.

 

Ex.......variable...

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What is the scientific method?
Definition
A way of testing, gathering, & proving information.
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What is Oral Tradition?
Definition

Speech, Interview, or Stories passed down throught the generations.

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What is a person's culture?
Definition
Thier way of life.
Term
List the seven continents.
Definition
Asia, Africa, South/North America, Antarctica, Australia, Europe
Term

Patriarchal Society:

Definition
Man oriented society.
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Matriarchal society:
Definition
Woman oriented society.
Term
Why is a ram paleolithic as opposed to a neolithic lamb?
Definition
Lamb is domesticated.
Term
 Give the location of Mesopatamia:
Definition

Located in the fertile crescent between the Euphrates and tigris rivers.

 

Term

Where did the sumerians live?

Definition
Mesopatamia
Term
Give the Environmental Problems, Government, Religion, Science and technology, and economic activities of Mesopatamia.
Definition
-Unpredictable Flooding, Lack of natural Resources.
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