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 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 _____

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