Key Terms Class Overview Clarify any questions or

Key Terms

Class Overview • Clarify any questions or concerns from yesterday. • Give students notes on key vocabulary. • Review vocabulary. • Complete hole punching important class handouts.

• Artifacts- an object formed by humans. • historical theory- an idea to determine the background and causes to an issue. • Paleo-Indians- the term given to the first people to who entered and lived in America. Paleo means old.

• Migration- the physical movement of humans from one location to another. • hunter-gatherers- the earliest society that would were scavengers (people who would seek out dead animals) for food. • Environments- all living and non-living things on Earth. For example- the desert

• Domestication- is the process of taming animals or plants. • Societies- group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another- an example could befootball team, cheerleading, this class.

• Mound Builder Period- member of a prehistoric American Indian from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi River • Kayaks- an Eskimo canoe made of a frame covered with animal skins

• totem poles-a pole or pillar carved and painted • Wigwams- a hut of the American Indians of the Great Lakes

• Culture-the pattern for learning and giving that knowledge to the next generations • Longhouses-a long dwelling of some North American Indians (as the Iroquois) • Tipi- or Tepee a cone tent usually made from animal skins

The Social Science-- Study of: • Anthropology- the study of humans- how humans act. • Economics-the study of production (making), distribution (moving the item), and consumption (using the item) of goods and services. • Geography- the study of Earth, the land, features and the people who lived there.

• political science- the study of politics and governments. • Psychology- the science of the human mind and behavior. • Sociology- the study of society. • Archaeology- the study of human history and artifacts.