Social Studies chapter 1-3

What is history?

• the written record of what man has done with the time God has given him

• The past

• What happened yesterday

• The news

Why was the new world called America and not Columbus land?

• It was the land of the free

• Amerigo Vespucci realized Columbus found new continents

• the fountain of youth in florida

It is believed that (a)   , a viking explorer, landed in North America about 500 years before Columbus

What is the purpose of the imaginary line we call the equator?

• The line we cross to get to the other side of the world

• separates the earth and moon

• separate the northern hemisphere and southern hemisohere

What does the word hemisphere mean?

• Half of a sphere

• a long trip

• Sea of Darkness

Besides dividing the world into Northern and Southern hemispheres, we can divide the world into Eastern and western hemispheres. The sun rises on the (a)  

What ocean is to the WEST of the United States?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• The Gulf

What Ocean is to the East of the United States?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• The gulf

The United States is divided into five regions

• Northern Southern Eastern and Western Hemisphere

• Atlantic Pacific Gulf Asian and Red sea

• Northeast Southeast Midwest Southwest and West

Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia

• Seven Indies

• Seven Islands

• Seven Ships

• Seven Continents