NatGeo, Geographer's Toolbox Vocab. Test

A cave discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings

• Technology

• Paleolithic Age

• Lascaux Cave

• Anthropologist

compares a distance on a map with a distance in the real world

• geography

• hemisphere

• map projection

• map scale

any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

• Drought

• Technology

• Ice Age

• Climate

half of the earth

• hemisphere

• Homp sapiens

• geography

The application of scientific knowledge, tools and inventions for practical purposes

• technology

• archaeologist

• megafuna

the first period of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone Age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E.

• Lascaux Cave

• Ice Age

• Paleolithic Age

a fertile spot in a desert where water is found.

• fossil

• artifact

• oasis

Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region

• Ice Age

• Lascaux Cave

• Five Themes of Geography

a way of representing the spherical Earth on a flat surface

• map scale

• map projection

• migration

the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa

• map projection

• megafauna

• Sahara Desert