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Geography

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

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Geographers

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

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timeline

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

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Lines of lattitude and longitude

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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.

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Land and water forms

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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

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equater

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the lattitude line that goes around the center of the earth

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prime merridean

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the longtude line at zero degrees.

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

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thousands of years ago and they were Native Americans

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9
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how many Americans populated the Americas

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1500 millions

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when was the last Ice age

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about 1200 years ago

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what did the ice age make?

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A land bridge from Asia to North America

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

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9000 years ago

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

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

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What also began about 9000 years ago?

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groups started building permanent homes and structures.

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The 5 themes of Geography

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.Location
.Place
.interaction
.movement
.region

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What is location

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Fnding the exact location on a map

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What is place

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

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What is interaction

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

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what is movement?

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People, goods, and Ideas moving from place to place

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What is region

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Area that has unifying characteristics

21
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what is the heartland of the Iriquois people

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

22
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At the center of the earth stood what

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The great elm

23
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What was considered sacred to the Iriquoi people

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smoking tobbaco and elm trees

24
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Burning tobbaco ment what to the Iriquoi people

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You were sending messages to the skyworls(heaven)

25
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The relationship between the Iriquoi people and land was explained by what

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The Iriquoi religion

26
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How did the Iriquoi veiw land

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

27
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What were the five nations the confederacy/league contain?

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Seneca, Oneda, Onodaga, Cayuga, and Mohawk.

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Why was the confederacy formed?

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To reform and keep peace with other tribes

29
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What were the Women able to do?

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They chose and could remove the leader.

30
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What were tribe councls made up of?

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cheifs from smaller villages to manage affairs.

31
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NY was what to the 13 colonies?

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vital

32
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What was NY known for?

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

33
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Why was the NYs huge forests highly valued?

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Used for ship building in America and England

34
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Why was many places In NY name after areas in england?

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The Geography was similar

35
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Long island and Manhatten quickly became the center for what?

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fishing and whaling fleets

36
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What place in NY was the center of commence and trade and a stock market

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Manhatten

37
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When was the stock market in manhatten created?

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1792

38
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As a state NY lead the naton in….

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

39
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What are New Yorkers known for?

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Ther grit and determination

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