Analyzing Sources | Charts, Diagrams, and Graphs | Critical Thinking Skills | What Is Geography? | Anything Goes |
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Artifacts
What are tools or ornaments that were used by people in the past
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Chart
A _____ presents facts and numbers in an organized way
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Cause
An action or situation that produces an event is a...
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Absolute location
The exact position on Earth where a geography feature, such as a city or mountain, is found is its _____
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Key
A _____ explains the symbols, colors and lines on a map. It is sometimes also called a legend.
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Secondary sources
What type of sources come from people who were not present at an event?
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Circle graph
Shows how the whole of something is divided
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Facts
You can check _____ using reliable sources to determine whether or not they are accurate.
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Place
The physical and human features that make a city, state, or country unique is _____
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Star
Capital cities are represented by a _____ on a map.
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Time Line
An easy way to keep track of chronology is to use or make a ....
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Line Graph
Shows how something changes over time
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Opinions
_____ often contain words such as "should, "ought", "best", "worst" or "greatest."
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Regions
Areas that share common features
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Relative location
Knowing a place's _____ may help a historian understand how it is settled and how its culture developed.
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Before Christ
The calendar begins at the birth of Jesus. The years before this date are known as B.C., or...
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Bar graph
Uses bars to compare numbers visually.
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Inference
To make an _____, you "read between the lines"
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Movement
Explains how and why people, things and ideas move.
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Physical systems
_____ affect how and where people live
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Personal Records
Diaries, journals, and letters are what kind of records?
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Infographics
Diagrams are sometimes called...
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Cause, Effect
Understanding _____ and _____ means thinking about WHY something happened.
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Human-environment interaction
Early Native Americans in the southwester U.S. used materials from plants, animals, and the land to build their homes and clothe and feed themselves. This is an example of...
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Cartographer
What is the technical term for a mapmaker?
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