9.0 Basics Bootcamp

Question 1

What are the 7 continents?

Answer 1

Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Europe

Question 2

What are the 5 oceans?

Answer 2

Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Arctic

Question 3

What is Historical Context?

Answer 3

Historical Context: the moods, attitudes, and conditions that existed in a certain time→ “The Setting”

Question 4

What is Geographic Context?

Answer 4

Geographic Context: The ways in which the environment (place) impacts humanity or visa versa.

Question 5

What are the types of sources?

Answer 5

Primary and Secondary, Qualitative and Quantitative

Question 6

What is a Primary Source?

Answer 6

These materials include letters, speeches, diaries, newspaper articles from the time, oral history interviews, documents, photographs, artifacts, or anything else that provides first hand accounts about a person or event.

Question 7

What is a Secondary Source?

Answer 7

Materials produced after that event, period or issue has passed. Aside from a textbook, the most commonly assigned secondary source is written by an expert in the field.

Question 8

What is a Qualitative Source?

Answer 8

These sources provide descriptive and interpretive information, often focusing on the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of people in the past.

Question 9

What is a Quantitative Source?

Answer 9

These sources offer numerical data and are often used to analyze patterns, trends, and comparisons across time. Ex: Statistics, and Graphs/Charts

Question 10

What is a Cause?

Answer 10

Refers to start/beginning

Question 11

What is an Effect?

Answer 11

Refers to what happens as a consequence (results, impact, outcomes)

Question 12

What is a Turning Point?

Answer 12

A major event, idea, or invention that brings about significant change (local, regional, national, or global)

Question 13

What is a Similarity?

Answer 13

How something is alike or the same as something else

Question 14

What is a Difference?

Answer 14

How something is not alike or not the same as something else

Question 15

What is an Economist?

Answer 15

A person who studies or specializes in the interaction between humans and their resources.

Question 16

What is a Political Scientist?

Answer 16

A person whose specialty is the study of governments and how they work.

Question 17

What is a Sociologist?

Answer 17

The study of society, social institutions, and social relationships.

Question 18

What is a Psychologist?

Answer 18

Study the way a person or group thinks.

Question 19

What is an Anthropologist?

Answer 19

The study of human races, origins, societies, and cultures.

Question 20

What is an Archaeologist?

Answer 20

Science that deals with past human life and activities by studying the bones, tools, etc., of ancient people.

Question 21

What is a Historian?

Answer 21

A person who studies or writes about history.

Question 22

What are the Cardinal Directions?

Answer 22

North, East, South, West

Question 23

What is a Decade?

Answer 23

A period of 10 years

Question 24

What is a Century?

Answer 24

A period of 100 years

Question 25

What is B.C.?

Answer 25

The time before Christ on a timeline

Question 26

What is A.D.?

Answer 26

Anno Domini-"In the year of our Lord" (Christianity)

Question 27

What is C.D.?

Answer 27

Common Era – Term now used to replace “A.D.”

Question 28

What is B.C.E.?

Answer 28

Replaces “B.C.” (before common era)

Question 29

How do Historians study how people lived in the past?

Answer 29

-Detective work: calculate evidence for reliability and explain its meaning. -Determine the cause of an event to explain the present and predict the future. -Personal differences or bias can influence opinions and interpretations, this leads to debate. -It is the study of famous people and events, but day to day life cannot be overlooked.

Question 30

What is Geography?

Answer 30

The study of people, their environments, and resources available to them.

Question 31

What is the first theme of Geography?

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1. Location: Tells where a place is on the surface earth by using longitude and latitude. -Aspects Include: Latitude, Longitude, Prime Meridian, Equator, and the Hemispheres

Question 32

What are some geographic features?

Answer 32

Islands, Mountains, Deserts, Rainforests, Rivers, River Valleys, Plains, Ice

Question 33

What is the second theme of Geography?

Answer 33

2. Place: Geographers describe places in terms of physical features and human characteristics.

Question 34

What is the third theme of Geography?

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3. Human-Environment Interaction: People have shaped and have been reshaped by the places in which they live. As technology has advanced people have changed the environment in more complex ways.

Question 35

What is the fourth theme of Geography?

Answer 35

4. Movement: People, goods, and ideas is another key link between geography and history. In early times people followed herds for food, in the modern world people flee wars, religious persecution, and are looking for jobs.

Question 36

What is the fifth theme of Geography?

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5. Region: The world is divided by physical, political, economic, and cultural regions. Physical: The North Country, Southeast Asia, etc. Political: Western Europe (democratic) Economic: Capitalism Cultural: The Swahili language

Question 37

What are the 8 basic features of civilization?

Answer 37

1. Cities: dense population 2. Organized Government: regulate social, economic, and political aspects of an area 3. Complex Religion/Philosophy: System of beliefs 4. Job Specialization: focus on one role 5. Social Classes: grouping of people into a hierarchy 6. Art and Architecture: music, sculpture, paintings, and pictures (beautify) 7. Public Works: societal benefit (roads/bridges) 8. System of Writing: written communication

Question 38

What are some belief systems?

Answer 38

1. ANIMISM Belief: Every living and non-living thing has a spirit. Worshipping of ancestors. Location: Still found in some traditional societies of the world – often associated with traditional African culture. 2. SHINTOISM Belief: Spirits of Kami dwell in many forms of the natural world Location: a traditional belief system of Japan 3. HINDUISM Belief: Reincarnation: the belief that the soul is reborn in the body of another person or thing. (Caste System) Location: Began in India. Is mainly in India still today. 4. BUDDHISM Belief: all people suffer, 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path Location: began in India - spread to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia 5. CONFUCIANISM Belief: Five Relationships, lead a good, moral life, education, government officials should be well educated and good role models Location: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam 6. TAOISM Belief: follow the way of nature – don’t go against the way of nature Location: China and Taiwan 7. JUDAISM Beliefs: monotheism, messiah, Torah,Ten Commandments Location: began in the Middle East – diaspora – Israel is the Jewish homeland 8. CHRISTIANITY Beliefs: monotheism,messiah (Jesus Christ), Bible Location: began in the Middle East – spread by the Roman Empire (Diaspora) throughout Europe (then on to the rest of the world) 9. ISLAM Beliefs: monotheism Five Pillars of Faith (pray 5 times a day, charity, pilgrimage, Ramadan fasting, believe in Allah) Quran (Koran) Location: begun in the Middle East (Mecca) by Mohammed - dominates the Middle East area today

Question 39

Example of MLA Citation:

Answer 39

Last name, First name. “Section of Website.” Title of the Website, Other Contributors, Version, Number, Name of publisher or sponsor, Date of publication, DOI or URL. Day Month Year of access. opt. URL. Library of Congress. United States Government, 10 Feb 2022, www.loc.gov/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2023.