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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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history | The study of past events |
chronolgical | events placed in order of when they took place |
era | a period of time that is associated with particular person ,event, or quality |
landform | shapes and type of land |
plate tectonics | the theory that the Earths surface |
climate | the average weather of a place over a period of 20-30 years |
vegetation | plant that grows in a area |
culture | the customs, ideas, beliefs, and skills of people |
physical geography | the study of land and its futures |
human geography | learning about people and their ways |
globe | the most accurate ''picture'' of the earth , it is a sphere with a map of earth printed on it |
relief | a change in elevation |
physical map | a map that highlights many of the natural futures of a place, such as a mountains, plains, rivers, and lakes by using color and shading |
political map | a map that shows features of a place such as countries , states, and cities |
druoght | long periods in which rainfalls at much lower rate than usual and may cause severe damage to crops |
irrigation | an artificial way to supply water to crops |
hunter gatherers | people who survive by searching for wild plants and animals to eat |
indigenous people | Native people to an area |
Beringia | during the ice age, Russia was connected to Alaska by a bridge of ice. |
artifacts | objects made by humans and used by archeologist to learn about their culture |
archeologist | scientists who study evidence left by early people to learn about their culture |
pictographs | pictures drawn of painted on caved walls, ledges and cliffs |
petroglyphs | carvings made in rocks |
pueblos | large Native Americans homes made of adobe |
missionaries | people sent to a place to covert the local population to a new religion |
tipi | cone shaped tents made of poles covered in animal skins used a dwelling by some Native American groups |
migrate | the ability of a people group to move into and inhabit a new region |
tribe | a number of family groups that follow the same leader and share the same territory and culture |
matrilineal | descent is traced primarily through the mother |
adobe | a building material of mud, rocks, clay, and dry grass shaped into bricks and used to construct pueblo dwellings |
reservations | land set aside by the government for use by Indian peoples. |
topical | information categorized into topics rather than chronologically. |