midterms study guide

What is prehistory?

• Time of dinosaurs

• Time before history existed

• Time before writing

• Last year

What would archaeologists most likely explore?

• Inside a house

• Places were people once lived, worked, or fought

• Ancient ruins

• Sanskrit

How does history help us with decision making

• All of the above

• History can help explain and understand the world and where you live

• History teaches you about cultures unlike your own

• History teaches you about yourself and lets you uncover what you did not know of the past

Rivers, valleys, and mountains are examples of...

• Exact location

• Regions

• Landforms

• Climate

What is absolute location?

• The exact general area of a place

• The place where you can know exactly

• The exact longitude and latitude of a place

• The relation of location to a place

What is a physical feature?

• A characteristic that is specific to a region

• Lakes

• Mountains

• Rivers

• All of the above

What is a region?

• The natural features of the land surface

• The pattern of weather conditions over a long period of time

• An area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas

• Materials found in the Earth that people need and value

What is it called when humans interact with the things around them?

• Human Encyclopedia Interaction

• Human Interaction of environment

• Environmental Interaction of humans

• Human Environment Interaction

What were the first two things that allowed humans to form societies?

• Fertile land and population growth

• Fertile land and food surplus

• Food surplus and population growth

• Nomadic lifestyle decline and increase of hunting and farming land

What made groups of people move to different areas during the nomadic lifestyle?

• Sweater weather before there were sweaters

• Ice age

• Lack of water

• Search for food