WorksheetsUnit 2: Geography Vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
Hunter-Gatherer
Person who move to an area to settle permanently
Person who wants to start a new life in a new place
Early humans who survived by hunting small animals and gathering plants
Person who farms
The time before humans invented writing
Prehistory
Hieroglyphics
Revolution
Timelines
Technology
the time before writing existed
Tools and skills that people use to meet their needs and wants
artifacts
papyrus
Moving from one place to another
Civilization
Paleo-Indians
Exploration
Migration
People who move from place to place; no permanent home
Cultural Region
Nomadic
Climate
Agriculture
Materials that are found in nature and are valuable to humans
Natural Resources
Migration
Arid
Climate
To change your way of life to suit your new environment
Culture
Dance
Move
Adapt
Irrigation
Farming the land
Watering crops by bringing in water through man-made methods (canals, sprinklers, pipes) instead of relying just on rainwater
Moving from place to place
Digging roads into the land
Surplus
A form of natural resource
Not enough materials
Having more than needed
Having just enough
