Ch.1 history

• ​Calendar

• ​Chronology

• ​Diagram

• ​Calendars break time into units.

• ​Examples - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc.

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​Timelines place events in chronological order from when they happened first.

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​Timelines are a great way to show the order of when events happened.

• ​Primary sources are descriptions or pictures of an event by someone who actually saw or lived through that event.

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• ​Diaries, journals, pictures, paintings, artifacts (George Washington's teeth)

• ​secondary sources usually come from people who were not present at an event.

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• ​textbooks, biographies and teachers are good examples

• ​Charts and diagrams present facts and numbers in an organized way.

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• ​What % of immigrants to the U.S. during 1841 - 1860 were Irish?

​Circle graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs are all examples of different diagrams that point out information

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​How many Allied soldiers were wounded in the Great War?

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​Globe

​map

​landorm

​relief

​elevation

​ecosystem

​environment

​diverse

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• ​A globe is a round model of the Earth

• ​A map is a flat drawing of all or part of the Earth's surface.

• ​maps and globes are useful tools when studying geography

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• ​A physical map shows landforms and water features.

• ​mountains, lakes, rivers and oceans

• ​A political map shows names and political boundaries of a place.

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• ​Cities, towns, and transportation routes are all apart of political maps

• ​These maps present specific kinds of information.

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• ​population, historical events like battles and even maps of places to see in a shopping mall

• ​A key explains a map's symbols, colors, and lines.

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• ​What do the yellow areas on the map signify?

• ​Location

• ​place

• ​region

• ​movement

• ​human-environment interaction

• ​create your own original continent that has at least