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Unit 1 Guide
For the Unit 1 test in History. Teacher: Boyer
Question | Answer |
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Social Studies | A course of study that deals with human relationships and the way society works. |
Social Sciences | The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. They diverge from the arts and humanities in that the social sciences tend to emphasize the use of the scientific method in the study of humanity. |
Cultural | Interactions Between People Ideas of people Customs of people |
Social | Social behavior Generally deals with a Society |
Political | Relating to government Relating to public affairs of a country Creation of laws |
Economic | Production, distribution and consumption of goods and services Dealing with money A good is something you can hold A service is something someone does for you |
A.D | Anno Domini |
B.C | Before Christ |
B.C.E. | Before Common Era |
C.E> | Common Era |
Decade | 10 years |
Century | 100 years |
Chronological | Something that is put in order in which they happened |
Timeline | A set of dates and events |
Light Blue | Shallow Water: Rivers & Coast of Beaches |
Dark Blue | Deep water: Oceans |
Light Green | Light Vegetation: Grasslands, Farm fields, Small Forest |
Dark Green | Dense Vegetation: Rainforests, Old Growth Forests |
Gray | Urban Areas & Mountains: Cities and High Mountains |
Brown | Barren Land: Lack of vegetation |
Tan | Desert & Beaches |
White | Snow and Ice |
Latitude | North an South |
Longitude | East an West |
Hemisphere | a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles. |
Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth in hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
Prime Meridian | the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth. |