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| Citizen | a member of a town, sate, or country |
| Culture | a people's way of life |
| Primary sources | a record made by people who saw or took part in an event |
| Secondary source | a record or an event, written by someone who was not there at the time |
| Oral history | accounts that tell the experiences of people who did not have a written language or who did not write down what happened |
| Historical empathy | understanding the actions and feelings of people from other times and other places |
| Perspective | point of view |
| Cause | any action that makes something happen |
| Effect | what happens because of an action |
| Analyze | to break something into its parts and look closely at how those parts connect with one another |
| Chronology | time order |
| Geographers | a person whose work is to study geography |
| Absolute location | exact location on the Earth |
| Relative location | the location of a place in relation to what it is near |
| Physical features | the landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, plant and animal life, and other natural resources that a place has |
| Human features | the buildings, bridges, farms, roads, and people themselves that are found in a place |
| Regions | an area on the Earth with features that make it different from other areas |
| Map title | words on a map that describe the subject of the map |
| Map key | a part of a map that explains what the symbols on the map stand for. Also called a legend |
| Compass rose | a direction marker on a map |
| Cardinal directions | one of the main directions: north, south, east, or west |
| Intermediate directions | one of the in-between directions: northeast, northwest, southeast, or southwest |
| Locator | a small map or picture of a globe. It shows where the area shown on the main map is located in a state, in a country, on a continent, or in the world |
| Map scale | a part of a map that compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world |
| Insert map | a small map within a larger map |
| Grid | on a map, the north-south and east-west lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares |
| Lines of latitude | east-west lines on a map or globe that are always the same distance apart. Also called parallels |
| Lines of longitude | north-south lines on a map or globe that run from pole to pole. Also called meridians |
| Economy | the way people use resources to meet their needs |
| Society | a human group |
| Heritage | culture that has come from the past and continues today |
