Unit 1: Foundations of History

A system for breaking time into units and keeping track of those units

• Chronology

• Calendar

• Globe

• Ecosystem

A person who studies and writes about people who lived in the past is called a(n)

• historian.

• author.

• geologist.

• recorder.

Definition of Ecosystem

• A community of living beings and the surrounding in which they live

• Complex forces that create weather

• they physical surrondings

• having different forms or types

A flat drawing that shows all or part of the Earth's surface

• latitude

• globe

• map

A ____ is a model of Earth; shaped like a sphere or ball.

• compass rose

• map

• map scale

• globe

To what does the word chronology refer?

• events in the year 0 A.D.

• types of governments

• study of artifacts

• the order in which events happen

Which of these is most likely to appear on a political map?

• a city

• a landform

• a region's elevation

• a region's vegetation density

Examples of primary sources include

• Diaries

• Photographs and videos

• Speeches

• Textbooks

A secondary source is created by

• Someone who lived during a specific time period

• Someone who researched a time period or event

• Someone who witnessed an event

• Someone who got information after an event happened

Evidence is

• A justification that connects a claim to evidence

• A statement or conclusion that answers a question

• Information that tends to prove or disprove a claim

• Facts