Sixth Grade ALL NOTES Flashcards
What are the five themes of geography?
Location, place, human-environmental interactions, movement, & research.
What is Location?
Where you are located. Earth, North America, USA, Tri-State Area, etc.
What is Place?
Regions, climates, plants, animals, the history, and the people that live in a certain place.
What are human-environmental interactions?
How humans are involved with the environment. Growing food, using wood, etc.
What is movement?
When people (such as nomads) move from one place to another.
What is a region?
A certain area with common dispositions, which distinct it from others.
Where does the prime meridian go through?
Greenwich, England
What is the arctic zone’s location?
66.5 degrees north all the way to north pole & 66.5 degrees south all the way to south pole.
What is the tropic zone’s location?
23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
What is the temperate zones location?
idk yet lol
What are the three polar climates?
SUbarctic, Tundra, Ice cap
What is subarctic?
found in higher altitudes of the interior and east coasts of continents. Northern evergreen forests found there.
What is tundra?
Found in coasts in high altitude, moss, lichens, and low shrubs found.
What is ice cap?
Found in polar regions and have no vegetation.
Vegetation
All pplats or plant life of a place, taken as a whole
Cartographer
A person who creates maps
What do temperate regions have that others don’t?
Four seasons
What do tropical regions have that others don’t?
Warm with high amounts of rain
What do polar regions have that others don’t?
cold, long winters, found in high altitudes
Where are dry (desert) regions located?
30 degrees latitude.
What regions do people usually live in?
Temperate and tropical
What was the Paleolithic Era?
First part of the stone age, 10,000 years ago.
What did people use during the paleolithic era?
Stone tools.
What does the prefix, paleo- mean?
first
What was the mesolithic era?
middle part of the stone age, 5000 years ago.
What did people use during the mesolithic era?
people began to use bone tools
What was teh neolithic era?
New stne age. People learned how to polish stone and to make tools.
What are the 7 elements of civilization?
division of labor, advanced society with agriculture, organized religion, multiple cities, government, science / tech, and written language.
What was babylon?
A city in mesopotamis.
What was mesopotamia & where was it located?
Mesopotamia was the land between the rivers. ONe of the first civilizations in middle east, iraq.
What was Sumer?
A city in mesopotamia
What was the earliest writing in mesopotamia?
Cuneiform.
What is religion?
a set of beliefs held by a group conerning the purposed and creation of the universe.
What was the first religoin and where did it begin?
Hinuisim, India.
What was the second religion?
Judaism, but later disappeared. Israel.
Third religion?
Buddhism, asia.
Fourth religion,
Christianity
