New Mexico History Semester Test | 2021

What do you call the exact position of a place using longitude and latitude coordinates?

• Absolute Location

• Relative Location

• Llano Estacado

• Prime Meridian

What do you call the study of past people and cultures through a careful examination of artifacts?

• Archaeology

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Demography

What term is used to describe an object made by people or used in the past?

• Artifact

• Prehistoric

• Atlatl

• Geography

What do you call a wooden tool used by Archaic people to throw spears?

• Atlatl

• Teepee

• Butte

• Kiva

What term is used to describe a one-sided point of view?

• Bias

• Culture

• Region

• Monotheism

What to you call a hill that has steep sloping sides and a flat top (similar to a mesa but smaller)?

• Butte

• Plateau

• Reservoir

• Nomad

The term used to describe the beliefs and customs of a group of people.

• Culture

• Demography

• Geography

• Hemisphere

What is the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, and density called?

• Demography

• Perspective

• Latitude

• Polytheism

What do you call the study of the earth's land, water, people, plants, and animals, and how they relate to one another?

• Geography

• Demography

• Tributary

• Oral History

What do you call half the earth?

• Hemisphere

• Absolute Location

• Metate

• Indigenous