10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Landforms The Tools of History Anything Goes Geography Terms All About Maps

A large area of flat or gently sloping land

What is a plain?

An area o high steep rugged land. They rise to an elevation (or height) of at least 1,000 feet above the surrounding land.

What is a mountain?

An area of flat land that is higher than the surrounding land

What is a plateau?

These are areas of raised land, but they are lower, less steep and more rounded than mountains.

What is a hill?

What two rivers make up the largest and most important river system in the United States.

What is The Mississippi River and the Missouri Rivers?

The study of how people manage their limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs is called

What is economics?

The term used for a user of goods and services

What is a consumer?

What do we call an account of history provided after the fact by people who did not directly witness or participate in the event? An example of a this source is a textbook, encyclopedia, books and articles written by historians.

What is a secondary source?

This term refers to whether or not the source is actually what it seems to be

What is authenticity

What is this cartoon saying?

The picture describes the job of an archeologist

What term do we use to describe an account of what happened in the life of different people?

What is history?

This term describes the entire way of life that people have developed. It includes the behavior, customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills that people teach every new generation.

What is culture?

This term is firsthand information about people or events. It includes official documents such as laws or court decisions, public speeches, and eyewitness accounts such as diaries or letters, and autobiographies

What is a Primary Source

This is the average weather of a place over a period of years.

What is climate?

What term do we use to call businesses that are owned by private citizens. In this system the owners decide what products to make and sell.

What is the Free Enterprise System?

The term we use to describe lines measured in degrees that run from north to south on a map

What is Longitude?

What are the four directions on a compass rose

What is north, south, east, and west

The term used to divide the Earth into two equal halves

What is a hemisphere?

The term we use to describe lines measured in degrees that run from east to west on a map

What is latitude?

An imaginary line at 0° latitude is known called

What is the equator

This term is used to describe a drawing of the Earth’s surface

What is a map?

The term used to describe a map maker

What is a cartographer?

The name of the map that divides countries by boundaries

What is a Political Map?

The name of the map that divides countries by land forms such as mountains and rivers

What is a Physical Map?

The type of map that shows how many people live in a part of the Earth

What is a Population Map