Unit 2: Geography Vocabulary

Beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors shared by a society or group of people (things like food, language, tools, music, arts, and religion)

• Religion

• Geography

• Actions

• Culture

Thinking about and studying the past through analyzing, evaluating, interpreting, and understanding historical evidence

• Culture

• History

• Geography

• Cartography

A natural structure or form found on the surface of the Earth (examples: rivers, mountains, deserts, peninsulas, oceans, plateaus)

• Physical Feature

• Latitude

• Equator

• Earth

Division of Labor

• farming your land

• Each worker specializes in a particular task or job; each part of a job divided into smaller tasks

• Going job hunting

• hunting and gathering

A complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills

• People

• Community

• Society

• Civilization

Diversity

• Cultural variety; being made up of different elements or parts

• Having many similarities

• Almost the same

• Made by Humans

Workers in a community or society perform different tasks; people spend most of their time working at a single job or task

• Agriculture

• Farming

• Education

• Job Specialization

Another word for farming; includes both growing and harvesting crops and also raising animals (livestock)

• Civilization

• Geography

• Culture

• Agriculture

Neolithic Revolution

• A time of change

• Neolithic is a Greek word for “new stone”. The Neolithic Revolution was the historical time when humans moved from hunting-gathering to producing their own food to survive

• Moving from place to place

• Hunting and gathering

River Valleys

• Mountainous regions

• A low area between hills or mountains that is also beside a river; the river is used for farming and surviving

• Land between two mountains

• Land next to an island