Social Studies Chapter 1 Test

What do geographers study?

• Earth and its people

• The ocean floor

• Dinosaurs

What do political maps show?

• Landforms and bodies of water.

• Certain information about a place or region.

• Features people have made, such as cities and boundaries.

What do archaeologists study to learn about early humans?

• artifacts and fossils

• photographs

• they ask people that were alive thousands of years ago

Check 3 examples of primary sources

• diaries

• artifacts

• books

• eyewitnesses

A __________ is one of the seven large landmasses of Earth.

• geography

• climate

• continent

____________ is the plant life of an area.

• vegetation

• landform

• geography

_______________ is an equal half of the globe

• hemisphere

• longitude

• latittude

Which map shows landforms and bodies of water?

• political map

• physical map

• thematic map

A (n)___________ is a human or human-like creature that walks on two feet.

• artifact

• fossil

• hominid

What was the name of the "unusually complete skeleton" discovered by Donald Johanson?

• Aubrey

• Caleb

• Lucy