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Core Concepts Vocab Part 1

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude

a)

Absolute location

b)

Locator map

c)

Relative location

d)

Place

2.

study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture

a)

Historian

b)

Anthropology

c)

Archaeology

d)

Prehistory

3.

scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence

a)

Anthropology

b)

Relative location

c)

Prehistory

d)

Archaeology

4.

object made by a human being

a)

Bias

b)

Place

c)

Artifact

d)

Region

5.

unfair preference or dislike for something

a)

Bias

b)

Artifact

c)

Primary source

d)

Secondary source

6.

list of events arranged in the order in which they occurred

a)

Secondary source

b)

Chronology

c)

Human-environment interaction

d)

Primary source

7.

diagram of a compass on a map showing direction

a)

Scale bar

b)

Compass rose

c)

Locator map

d)

Key

8.

person who studies the past

a)

Artifact

b)

Primary source

c)

Historian

d)

Secondary source

9.

how people affect their environment and how their environment affects them

a)

Oral tradition

b)

Region

c)

Human-environment interaction

d)

Relative location

10.

section of a map that explains the map’s symbols and shading

a)

Key

b)

Compass rose

c)

Relative location

d)

Timeline

11.

how people, goods and ideas get from one place to another

a)

Absolute location

b)

Region

c)

Place

d)

Movement

12.

community’s cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs

a)

Artifact

b)

Prehistory

c)

Oral tradition

d)

Human-environment interaction

13.

length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time

a)

Period

b)

Prehistory

c)

Timeline

d)

Oral tradition

14.

time before humans invented writing

a)

Chronology

b)

Timeline

c)

Prehistory

d)

Archaeology

15.

information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event

a)

Anthropology

b)

Archaeology

c)

Primary source

d)

Secondary source

16.

area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, populations, or history

a)

Region

b)

Place

c)

Relative location

d)

Absolute location

17.

location of a place relative to another place

a)

Absolute location

b)

Relative location

c)

Region

d)

Place

18.

section of a map that shows how much distance on the map represents how much distance on the land

a)

Historical map

b)

Key

c)

Locator map

d)

Scale bar

19.

information about an event that does not come directly from a person who experienced that event

a)

Secondary source

b)

Primary Source

c)

Anthropology

d)

Archaeology

20.

line marked with a series of events and their dates

a)

Key

b)

Period

c)

Chronology

d)

Timeline

21.

64.0378° N, 145.7322° W is an example of...

a)

Place

b)

Absolute location

c)

Relative location

d)

Locator map