1. What is a thick sheet of ice called?
Glacier

2. What is the study of the ways of life of early peoples by examining their physical remains?
Archaeology

3. What is the distance north or south of the Equator?
Latitude

4. What is the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian?
Longitude

5. What are tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs?
Technology

6. What are objects made by people?
Artifacts

7. What is the period of time before people invented writing systems?
Prehistory

8. For what do archaeologists use modern technology like computers?
Study and interpret findings

9. Archaeologists use what modern technology to help them to study and interpret their findings?
Computers

10. Historians and archaeologists are alike in that they both use what to study how people lived?
Artifacts

11. What is the earliest period of human history?
Paleolithic

12. What is the Neolithic village located in the Orkney Islands?
Skara

13. What are people who move from place to place following game animals and ripening fruits?
Nomads

14. What is the Neolithic Age?
New Stone Age

16. How did archaeologists learn how early people developed skills and tools?
By studying thousands of artifacts.

17. What did archaeologists make to help them analyze a site?
They make detailed maps locating every artifact they find.

18. What do archaeologists use to study and interpret their findings?
They use modern technology like computers, aerial photography, and techniques for measuring radioactivity.

19. What can historians gain by studying the lives of both famous and ordinary people?
They can a more complete understanding of our past.

20. How can geography be described?
As the study of people, their environments, and the resources they use.

21. What five themes could sum up the impact geography has had on human history?
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.

22. Define prehistory.
Period before people invented writing systems.

23. What is an artifact?
Objects made by people.

24. What is technology?
Skills and tools needed to meet basic needs.

25. What is latitude?
The distance north or south of the Equator.

26. Define longitude.
The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.