9.0 Basics Bootcamp Flashcards
What are the 7 continents?
Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe
What are the 5 oceans?
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Arctic
What is Historical Context?
Historical Context: the moods, attitudes, and conditions that existed in a certain time→ “The Setting”
What is Geographic Context?
Geographic Context: The ways in which the environment (place) impacts humanity or visa versa.
What are the types of sources?
Primary and Secondary, Qualitative and Quantitative
What is a Primary Source?
These materials include letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides first hand accounts about a person or event.
What is a Secondary Source?
Materials produced after that event, period or issue has passed. Aside from a textbook, the most commonly assigned secondary source is written by an expert in the field.
What is a Qualitative Source?
These sources provide descriptive and interpretive information, often focusing on the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of people in the past.
What is a Quantitative Source?
These sources offer numerical data and are often used to analyze patterns, trends, and comparisons across time. Ex: Statistics, and Graphs/Charts
What is a Cause?
Refers to start/beginning
What is an Effect?
Refers to what happens as a consequence (results, impact, outcomes)
What is a Turning Point?
A major event, idea, or invention that brings about significant change (local, regional, national, or global)
What is a Similarity?
How something is alike or the same as something else
What is a Difference?
How something is not alike or not the same as something else
What is an Economist?
A person who studies or specializes in the interaction between humans and their resources.
What is a Political Scientist?
A person whose specialty is the study of governments and how they work.