| A | B |
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| history | the story of what has happened in a place |
| artifacts | objects used by a people in the past |
| biography | the story of a person's life writtten by another |
| autobiography | a person's life story written by that person |
| map | a picture that shows the location of things; it also tells historians about the land and the people who lived there |
| geography | the study of the Earth's surface and the ways people use it |
| globe | a 3-dimensional model of our planet; a sphere |
| continents | the largest land masses |
| equator | the imaginary line halfway between the North and South Pole |
| hemispheres | half of the globe when it is divided into either the northern, southern, eastern, or western halves |
| Northern Hemisphere | half of the globe north of the equator |
| Southern Hemisphere | the half of the globe south of the equator |
| map title | tells the subject of the map; check this out first |
| key OR legend | explains the symbols on the map |
| inset map | smaller map within a larger one |
| map scale | compares the distance on the map key to a distance in the real world |
| compass rose OR direction marker | shows the directions on a map |
| cardinal directions | N,S,E, W; "Nobody Except Sally Wins" |
| intermediate directions | NE,NW,SE,SW; directions between the cardinal directions |
