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7th Grade Social Studies Core Concepts Part 1 pages 2-17.
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The five themes of geography are
Location, place, region, movement, human environment Inter
absolute location, relative location, movement, region,place
absolute & relative location, human features, culture, place
place, human features, nonhuman features, region, movement
2
Part of the map that tells you how to identify what a particular color or symbol means is the
title
key
The label
compass rose
3
Throughout history, different people and cultures have
relied on timelines to keep track of time.
developed their own calendars.
used the same calendar.
based their calendars mainly on the changing seasons.
4
The terms
history
and
prehistory
are examples of how historians today
explain the difference between the common era and before
organize time
mark the point at which people began using the same calendar
keep track of movements of the sun
5
Why must students of history learn to evaluate historical sources?
Only primary sources are reliable and accurate.
Opinions are much more useful than facts.
Only secondary sources are reliable and accurate.
All types of sources can be biased, or unreliable.
6
The relative location of Washington D.C. is
impossible to tell from this map
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
at 380N, and 770 W
about eight miles south of Silver Spring.
7
Archaeologists focus their studies on
buried and hidden evidence of ancient times.
human remains
the written records left by ancient peoples.
oral traditions
8
The part of the map that would help you measure distance between two cities is the
Title
Scale Bar
compass rose
Key
9
What part of the map tells you where North, South, East, and West are?
The title
The Key
The compass rose
The scale Bar
10
The part of the map that would help you measure distance between two cities is the
compass rose
title
key
scale bar
11
If a political map and a road map showed the same state at the same size, they should both
have the same scale bar
have the same title
have the same key symbols
have the same compass rose
12
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy..."--Speech by President FDR
A primary source.
an artifact.
bias
A secondary source.
13
Which of the five themes describes where a place is found?
Human-Environment Interaction
Region
Location
Movement
14
A locator map can be useful
only with physical maps.
only with maps that have keys
only with road maps
with any map.
15
Who is most likely to study the oral traditions of a society?
An anthropologist
An archaeologist
An architect
A paleontologist
16
Archaeologist can be described as treasure hunters because
good archaeologists are wealthy
mostly interested in finding artifacts of great value.
ancient peoples often had lots of gold and jewels.
they search for hidden objects.
17
The part of the map that would help you identify what a particular color or symbol means is the
compass rose
title
label
key
18
A timeline is a tool that historians often use as a way of organizing events according to
historical significance
different calendars
their role in prehistory
chronology
19
What is the purpose of a historical map?
To compare the past to the present.
To contrast two different places.
To give information about a place at a particular time.
To illustrate the five themes of geography.
20
A historical source where the author clearly disliked a key figure should be evaluated for
bias
unnecessary facts.
an artifact
primary source.
21
Which of the five themes describes where a place is found?
Region
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Location
22
Historically, what has been a common basis for the creation of different calendar systems?
A need to lengthen the growing season.
The age of the culture's leader.
The movement of Earth, the Sun, and the stars.
The birth and death of key religious figures
23
An anthropologist might study these to learn how human beings developed physically.
Layers of soil
Oral traditions
Fossils
Buried ruins
24
The area around Washington D.C., illustrates which of the following geographic themes
Absolute Location
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement
Region
25
A person who studies ruined buildings and artifacts of an ancient culture is
an archaeologist
an anthropologist
an oral historian
a geographer
