What is history and Geography?

______ is the story of the successes and failures from the past that shaped our world today.

• History

• Mistakes

• Social

• Kari

Studying history means learning about ______ that people have made over time. The philosopher George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

• history

• mistakes

• information

• decisions

A part of history is learning about decisions people have made across time, and how those decisions have affected events, issues, and movements. That includes learning about decisions that failed (so we do not repeat those mistakes today) and decisions that made life better for their country and the world. In other words, we study history in the hope that we do not repeat the ________of our ancestors

• decisions

• mistakes

• failures

• events

Many students have learned about the history of the _____________ in elementary school. This textbook has information about the history of other countries. Learning the history of other countries provides information for decision making. To be successful living among the different people of the world, people need good information so they can make good decisions.

• Canada

• Turkey

• United Kingdom

• United states

The study of ______is the study of our surroundings—the physical features that describe places on Earth, and the human geography that examines how people make decisions about how to adapt to their__________.

• Political science and mountains

• the ocean and candy

• Geography and environment

• the U.S.A. and the U.K

The study of geography may be described by five themes. These themes help us understand our world. The themes are__________,__________,_______,_____,________and ________

• place, active organisms/unactive organisms and continents

• tectonic plates, movement,unactive continents and earth

• location, place, human/environment interaction, movement, and regions.