SS Quarterly Exam

What is a region?

an area of land that has common featuresAreas grouped together by common characteristics like language, religion, and politics.

Geography

The study of Earth's environment, how it shapes peoples' lives, and how the Earth is shaped by peoples activities.

Physical Characteristics

Natural features of a place

Location

Place

Description of what a place has, rather than where it is located.

The ice Ages

The freezing times

How are the stone age differentiated

The types of tools used

What do historians call the shift from food gathering to food production?

Neolithic Revolution

The old stone age is called the

Paleolithic Era

Land bridge

Strip of land connecting two continents

Human Characteristics

Structures built by people

Example of human geography

Sayreville middle school

Physical Characteristics

Example of physical geography

Nile river

Which is a way people affect the environment

Taking down trees to build

On which continent did the first humans originate

Africa

Society

A community of people who share a common culture

Human environmental interaction

The relationship between people and their surroundings

Absolute Location

The exact place on Earth, using coordinates or latitude and longitude.

Relative Location

where a place is locatedin relation to another place or landmark, like saying your house is "next to the park"

Timeline

A way to shows events in The order in which they occured

What is Agriculture?

Another word for farming

By 9000 BC humans migrated everywhere except for what continent?

Antarctica

Hominids

Early ancestors of humans

During which of the Stone Ages did tools become smaller and more complex?

Mesolithic era

How many years did it take humans to migrate

Hundreds of thousands of years

The time before there was writing

Prehistory

New stone age

Mesolthic era