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| Geography | the study of people, their environment, and the resources available to them |
| Location | tells where a place is on the surface of the Earth; it can be absolute or relative |
| Place | described in terms of physical features and human characteristics |
| Region | refers to an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics; these characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural |
| Movement | refers to the way people, products, information, and ideas move from one place to another |
| Human-Environment Interaction | looks at the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it |
| Prehistory | the period of time before writing was developed |
| Archaeology | the study of past societies through an analysis of items people left behind them |
| Artifact | tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings, and household items left behind by early people |
| Anthropology | the study of human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils |
| Fossil | a remnant or impression of an organism from a past geologic age that has been preserved in the earth's crust |
| Hominid | humans and other humanlike creatures that walk upright |
| Theory | hypothesis or unproved assumption |
| Dating | ____ human fossils and artifacts helps scientists understand when and where the first humans lived |
| Hominids | the earliest humanlike creatures that appeared in Africa four million years ago and slowly changed over time |
| Australopithecus | "southern ape" |
| Homo habilis | "handy human" that may have used stone tools |
| Homo erectus | "upright human" that were probably the first to leave Africa |
| Home sapiens | "wise human" that mastered the art of fire and had rapid brain growth |
| Neanderthals | made clothes from animal skins and buried their dead |
| Homo sapiens sapiens | "wise wise human" that were the first to have modern anatomy |
| "Out of Africa" theory | homo sapiens sapiens that spread throughout the globe around 100,000 years ago in search of food and hunting grounds, replacing populations in Europe and Asia |
| Paleolithic Age | refers to the early period of history when humans used stone tools |
| Nomads | moving from place to place following food and animals |
| Equal | The roles of men and women during the Paleolithic Age were probably considered ___ due to the division of labor. |
| Hunter-gatherers | Paleolithic people were ____ who lived a nomadic lifestyle |
