Chapter 1 Vocabulary

The study of material evidence of past human life

• Archeology

• Artifact

• Climate

• Describe

An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

• Archeology

• Climate

• Artifact

• Environment

Overall weather in an area over a long period of time.

• Environment

• Archeology

• Culture

• Climate

Give a detailed account

• Elaborate

• Identify

• Describe

• Explain

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

• Climate

• Culture

• Environment

• Regions

Involving many carefully arranged parts or details, detailed and complicated in design and planning

• Describe

• Identify

• Explain

• Elaborate

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

• Climate

• Environment

• Region

• Predict

To make clear or understandable by giving details

• Explain

• Elaborate

• Identify

• Predict

Find, point out

• Explain

• Describe

• Elaborate

• Identify

To say what will happen before it occurs

• Explain

• Describe

• Predict

• Identify