Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz [A] Review

Alfred Wegener’s theory that explains how the continents have shifted position on Earth's surface over the course of time.

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• landform

• geography

An account of a historical event written by someone who did not witness the event.

• primary source

• secondary source

• oral history

• vegetation

The theory describing the motion of plates on Earth's upper mantle and crust causing seismic activity along plate boundaries.

• Pangaea

• Continental Drift

• earthquake

• Plate Tectonics

One of the seven large landmasses of Earth- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.

• geography

• continent

• landform

• climate

A human being who hunts animals and gathers plants for food, moving to a different location whenever such food becomes scarce.

• migration

• religion

• nomad

• hunter-gatherer

The plant life of an area.

• vegetation

• agriculture

• Pangaea

• climate

A movement from one region or country to settle in another.

• nomad

• hunter-gatherer

• migration

• climate

An unwritten verbal account of an event.

• primary source

• secondary source

• oral history

• technology

A member of a group of people who have no set home but move from place to place.

• nomad

• hunter-gatherer

• migration

• domesticate

Relating to a type of agriculture in which patches of land are prepared for planting by cutting down and burning the natural vegetation.

• agriculture

• slash-and-burn

• technology

• domesticate