Sixth Grade ALL NOTES

Question 1

What are the five themes of geography?

Answer 1

Location, place, human-environmental interactions, movement, & research.

Question 2

What is Location?

Answer 2

Where you are located. Earth, North America, USA, Tri-State Area, etc.

Question 3

What is Place?

Answer 3

Regions, climates, plants, animals, the history, and the people that live in a certain place.

Question 4

What are human-environmental interactions?

Answer 4

How humans are involved with the environment. Growing food, using wood, etc.

Question 5

What is movement?

Answer 5

When people (such as nomads) move from one place to another.

Question 6

What is a region?

Answer 6

A certain area with common dispositions, which distinct it from others.

Question 7

Where does the prime meridian go through?

Answer 7

Greenwich, England

Question 8

What is the arctic zone’s location?

Answer 8

66.5 degrees north all the way to north pole & 66.5 degrees south all the way to south pole.

Question 9

What is the tropic zone’s location?

Answer 9

23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.

Question 10

What is the temperate zones location?

Answer 10

idk yet lol

Question 11

What are the three polar climates?

Answer 11

SUbarctic, Tundra, Ice cap

Question 12

What is subarctic?

Answer 12

found in higher altitudes of the interior and east coasts of continents. Northern evergreen forests found there.

Question 13

What is tundra?

Answer 13

Found in coasts in high altitude, moss, lichens, and low shrubs found.

Question 14

What is ice cap?

Answer 14

Found in polar regions and have no vegetation.

Question 15

Vegetation

Answer 15

All pplats or plant life of a place, taken as a whole

Question 16

Cartographer

Answer 16

A person who creates maps

Question 17

What do temperate regions have that others don’t?

Answer 17

Four seasons

Question 18

What do tropical regions have that others don’t?

Answer 18

Warm with high amounts of rain

Question 19

What do polar regions have that others don’t?

Answer 19

cold, long winters, found in high altitudes

Question 20

Where are dry (desert) regions located?

Answer 20

30 degrees latitude.

Question 21

What regions do people usually live in?

Answer 21

Temperate and tropical

Question 22

What was the Paleolithic Era?

Answer 22

First part of the stone age, 10,000 years ago.

Question 23

What did people use during the paleolithic era?

Answer 23

Stone tools.

Question 24

What does the prefix, paleo- mean?

Answer 24

first

Question 25

What was the mesolithic era?

Answer 25

middle part of the stone age, 5000 years ago.

Question 26

What did people use during the mesolithic era?

Answer 26

people began to use bone tools

Question 27

What was teh neolithic era?

Answer 27

New stne age. People learned how to polish stone and to make tools.

Question 28

What are the 7 elements of civilization?

Answer 28

division of labor, advanced society with agriculture, organized religion, multiple cities, government, science / tech, and written language.

Question 29

What was babylon?

Answer 29

A city in mesopotamis.

Question 30

What was mesopotamia & where was it located?

Answer 30

Mesopotamia was the land between the rivers. ONe of the first civilizations in middle east, iraq.

Question 31

What was Sumer?

Answer 31

A city in mesopotamia

Question 32

What was the earliest writing in mesopotamia?

Answer 32

Cuneiform.

Question 33

What is religion?

Answer 33

a set of beliefs held by a group conerning the purposed and creation of the universe.

Question 34

What was the first religoin and where did it begin?

Answer 34

Hinuisim, India.

Question 35

What was the second religion?

Answer 35

Judaism, but later disappeared. Israel.

Question 36

Third religion?

Answer 36

Buddhism, asia.

Question 37

Fourth religion,

Answer 37

Christianity