Chapter 1 7th grade

the study of Earth's features, such as rivers and deserts.

• geography

• archaeology

• cartography

• history

the recovery and study of physical evidence from the past.

• archaeology

• geography

• cartography

• history

the skills and methods people use to make maps.

• cartography

• geography

• archaeology

• history

the study of past events.

• history

• archaeology

• geography

• cartography

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

• continent

• artifact

• projection

• historian

an object made by a human such as tools, pottery, or jewelry.

• artifact

• continent

• projection

• historian

is a way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable.

• projection

• continent

• artifact

• historian

a person who studies and interprets, or explains the importance of, the past.

• historian

• continent

• artifact

• projection

a feature of Earth's land surface.

• landform

• excavation

• hemisphere

• primary source

the process of digging up historically significant objects for the purpose of studying them.

• excavation

• landform

• hemisphere

• primary source