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the vocabulary for social studies

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Location

Location can identify a precise spot on tell where one place is in relation to another

Place

Place includes physical characteristics as well as human ones,like language,religion,and politics.

Region

Region compares physical and human characteristics.

Movement

How people, goods and ideas move from one place to another.

Human envirement interaction

People choose to and change what the envirement has to offer

Artifact

A human made object

Fossil

Remains of early life found in the ground

hominid

beings and creatures that walk on two feet

paleolithic age

the old stone age

mesolithic age

the middle stone age

neolithic age

the new stone age

primary source

something written or created by a person who witnessed the event

secondary source

written after a historical event by people who did not witness the event.

oral history

is made up of all the unwritten verbal accounts and events

archipelago

a large group of islands

archaeology

the study of past cultures

geography

the study of earths envirement and how it shapes peoples lives and how earth is shaped in turn of peoples activities


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