Intro to Social Studies with Mrs. B

the study of the distant past, from the earliest humans through the first great civilizations

• ancient history

• modern history

• European history

• Medieval history

people who study and write about the human past

• historians

• archeologists

• geologists

• geographers

people who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been

• archeologists

• historians

• ancient history

• geologists

an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and human-made features

• archeologists

• historians

• ancient history

• geographers

the natural features of the land's surface

• landforms

• infrastructure

• investigation

• artifacts

A landform made of dirt and minerals that is left behind where a river flows into an ocean or lake. Usually triangular shaped.

• delta

• river

• plateau

• gulf

areas of land with little vegetation, limited rainfall and extreme climate (very hot or very cold)

• desert

• mountain range

• plateau

• river

a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.

• valley

• sea

• cliff

• gulf

large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land (salt water)

• sea

• ocean

• river

• pond

Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, or sea surrounded on three sides by water

• peninsula

• gulf

• plateau

• mountain range