NCFE Social Studies Review

What is Geography?

• It is the study of our earth; our home.

• Anything that can be mapped!

• A tracker

• Place

World map shows what two things?

• continents and oceans

• roads and road signs

• mountains and waterways

• rainfall and snowfall

What is Location?

• Google Maps

• Describes areas that have common features

• I dOnt KnoW

• Describes where something is

What are the 5 parts of a map?

• Latitude, longitude, hemisphere, theme, electricity

• I Don't know

• Title, Scale, Compass rose, key, and grids.

What are the 5 themes of geography?

• I don't know

• Earth, mars, sun, stars, mercury

• Notebook, lunch, book bag, computer, camera

• Place, Location, HEI, Movement, and Region

Who was Hammurabi?

• He was a god.

• He was a king of the first city of Ur.

• He was the king of the Babylonian empire.

• He was a Mesopotamian scribe.

The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia surrounded what river(s)?

• Tigris

• Huang He

• Nile

• Euphrates

How would you describe Hammurabi's laws?

• complicated

• Fair and balanced.

• Very harsh by our modern standards.

• Too lenient (easy on the offender)

Using the map, which letter indicated the area known as Mesopotamia.

• W

• Y

• X

• Z

In the Egypt the process of preserving human bodies for the afterlife is called __________.

• mummification

• preserved

• polytheistic

• monotheistic