Vocabulary 1 Timelines

to determine the nature and relationship of the parts of a concept to the larger picture

• construct

• analyze

• theme

• cause and effect

to build or form by putting together parts

• analyze

• construct

• parallel

• pattern

a period of ten years

• chronological order

• single-tier timeline

• decade

• century

a period of one hundred years

• decade

• century

• theme

• chronological order

includes two or more rows of events, with each representing a different topic or perspective

• single-tier timeline

• pattern

• theme

• multiple-tier timeline

shows events related to a specific topic

• multiple-tier timeline

• analyze

• parallel

• single-tier timeline

extending in the same direction

• parallel

• century

• construct

• theme

when events follow predictable, repeatable steps

• theme

• parallel

• pattern

• cause and effect

when events can be grouped based on similarities

• pattern

• theme

• century

• analyze

when one event causes, or influences, another event to occur

• theme

• pattern

• chronological order

• cause and effect