soc part 2

Question 1

Geography

Answer 1

is the study of places and relationships between people and their environments

Question 2

Geographers

Answer 2

explore both the physical properties earths surface and the human societies spread across it

Question 3

timeline

Answer 3

Shows something in chronological order. the reader should be able to distinguish where growth took place. Timelines can be completed using words or picture

Question 4

Lines of lattitude and longitude

Answer 4

A sytem of lines to find the location of any place on the surface of the earth. Can also be called a grid system with two sets of lines that cross each other.

Question 5

Land and water forms

Answer 5

Three quarters of the earth is covered in water. Size, shape, and rol it plays are just a few criteria to distinguish one body of water from another. The earths surface has many shapes and elevation

Question 6

equater

Answer 6

the lattitude line that goes around the center of the earth

Question 7

prime merridean

Answer 7

the longtude line at zero degrees.

Question 8

aproximatley when did the first Americans arrive and who were they?

Answer 8

thousands of years ago and they were Native Americans

Question 9

how many Americans populated the Americas

Answer 9

1500 millions

Question 10

when was the last Ice age

Answer 10

about 1200 years ago

Question 11

what did the ice age make?

Answer 11

A land bridge from Asia to North America

Question 12

how many years ago did the people learn how to plant and rase crops?

Answer 12

9000 years ago

Question 13

What are the three sisters and what was so special about them.

Answer 13

The three ssters are maize, pumpkins or squash, and beans. These crops grew in harmony with eachother providing nutrients, shade, and suport

Question 14

What also began about 9000 years ago?

Answer 14

groups started building permanent homes and structures.

Question 15

The 5 themes of Geography

Answer 15

.Location
.Place
.interaction
.movement
.region

Question 16

What is location

Answer 16

Fnding the exact location on a map

Question 17

What is place

Answer 17

Physical features, climate life, water, land forms, human features. Changes made by people.

Question 18

What is interaction

Answer 18

Adaption to natural environments by people. Examples include: drilling oil, irrigating water to dessert areas

Question 19

what is movement?

Answer 19

People, goods, and Ideas moving from place to place

Question 20

What is region

Answer 20

Area that has unifying characteristics

Question 21

what is the heartland of the Iriquois people

Answer 21

The heartland of the Iriquois people is stretched across what is now New York

Question 22

At the center of the earth stood what

Answer 22

The great elm

Question 23

What was considered sacred to the Iriquoi people

Answer 23

smoking tobbaco and elm trees

Question 24

Burning tobbaco ment what to the Iriquoi people

Answer 24

You were sending messages to the skyworls(heaven)

Question 25

The relationship between the Iriquoi people and land was explained by what

Answer 25

The Iriquoi religion

Question 26

How did the Iriquoi veiw land

Answer 26

they viewed land as sacred/holy and could not be bought or sold (viewed like how we view air)

Question 27

What were the five nations the confederacy/league contain?

Answer 27

Seneca, Oneda, Onodaga, Cayuga, and Mohawk.

Question 28

Why was the confederacy formed?

Answer 28

To reform and keep peace with other tribes

Question 29

What were the Women able to do?

Answer 29

They chose and could remove the leader.

Question 30

What were tribe councls made up of?

Answer 30

cheifs from smaller villages to manage affairs.

Question 31

NY was what to the 13 colonies?

Answer 31

vital

Question 32

What was NY known for?

Answer 32

fruit orchads, farms, and forest(produced much of the food for the rest of the colonies)

Question 33

Why was the NYs huge forests highly valued?

Answer 33

Used for ship building in America and England

Question 34

Why was many places In NY name after areas in england?

Answer 34

The Geography was similar

Question 35

Long island and Manhatten quickly became the center for what?

Answer 35

fishing and whaling fleets

Question 36

What place in NY was the center of commence and trade and a stock market

Answer 36

Manhatten

Question 37

When was the stock market in manhatten created?

Answer 37

1792

Question 38

As a state NY lead the naton in....

Answer 38

production, finance, technology, education, and almost every other aspect of American life.

Question 39

What are New Yorkers known for?

Answer 39

Ther grit and determination