Global Vocab Geography Unit 1

The study of past people and cultures.

• Archeology
• Anthropology
• Lineage
• Polytheistic

A chain of islands

• archipelago

• Latitude
• Delta
• Peninsula

An area or region of the world with specific weather conditions.

• Geography
• Culture
• Hemisphere
• Climate

The way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience.

• Political
• Culture
• Joint Family
• Prehistory

Period of time before writing systems were invented.

• Polytheistic
• Social class
• Regional
• Prehistory

A display that shows the division and classification of specific areas of the world.

• Political Map
• Physical Map
• Regional Map
• Peninsula

A display of the Earth's features ( mountain elevation of water depth)

• Political Map
• Physical Map
• Regional Map
• Historical Map

The way the globe is broken into halves North and South or East and West.

• Lineage
• Thematic
• Location
• Hemisphere

A display of a country of continents territories, boundaries, and capitals,

• Physical
• Regional
• Thematic
• Political

Distance north or south of equator.

• Latitutide
• Longitude
• Lineage
• Geography