6TH SS CORE CONCEPTS 1.1-1.6 Vocab on study guide

Question 0

Information about an event that does not come directly from a person who experienced that event?

Answer 0

Secondary Source

Question 1

List of events arranged in the order in which they occurred?

Answer 1

Chronology

Question 2

Time before humans invented writing?

Answer 2

Prehistory

Question 3

Study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture?

Answer 3

Anthropology

Question 4

Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event?

Answer 4

Primary Source

Question 5

Length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time?

Answer 5

Period

Question 6

Scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence?

Answer 6

Archaeology

Question 7

Line marked off with a series of events and their dates?

Answer 7

Timeline

Question 8

A person who studies the past?

Answer 8

Historian

Question 9

Object made by a human being?

Answer 9

Artifact

Question 10

Community’s cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs?

Answer 10

Oral Tradition

Question 11

Unfair preference for or dislike of?

Answer 11

Bias

Question 12

Area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population or history?

Answer 12

Region

Question 13

Exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude?

Answer 13

Absolute Location

Question 14

Section of a map that shows how much distance on the map represents a given distance on the land?

Answer 14

Scale Bar

Question 15

Diagram of a compass showing direction?

Answer 15

Compass Rose

Question 16

Special-purpose map that provides information about a place at a certain time in history?

Answer 16

Historical Map

Question 17

Section of a map that explains the map’s symbols and shading?

Answer 17

Key

Question 18

Location of a place relative to another place?

Answer 18

Relative Location

Question 19

How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another?

Answer 19

Movement

Question 20

Section of a map that shows a larger area than the main map?

Answer 20

Locator Map

Question 21

Mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location?

Answer 21

Place

Question 22

How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them?

Answer 22

Human-environment Interaction

Question 23

A scientist who studies human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind?

Answer 23

Archaeologist