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7th Grade Geography and History Overview

This document contains notes from a 7th grade social studies class covering 4 lessons: 1) geography of the world, 2) mapping the world, 3) discovering the past, and 4) interpreting the past. It includes essential questions and answers for each lesson covering topics like landforms, climate vs. weather, map elements, how historians study and interpret the past using artifacts, primary and secondary sources.

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7th Grade Geography and History Overview

This document contains notes from a 7th grade social studies class covering 4 lessons: 1) geography of the world, 2) mapping the world, 3) discovering the past, and 4) interpreting the past. It includes essential questions and answers for each lesson covering topics like landforms, climate vs. weather, map elements, how historians study and interpret the past using artifacts, primary and secondary sources.

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7 Grade Notes

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Chapter 1
{ Lesson 1
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #1:


What covers the surface of the Earth?
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #1 Answer:


Landforms such as mountains, plains,
desserts, canyons, hills. Large bodies of
water such as oceans, seas, lakes and
rivers.
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #2:


What is the difference between climate
and weather?
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #2 Answer:


The atmosphere at a particular place
and time is weather. The weather
conditions at a particular place over a
period of time is climate.
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #3:


How do geographers organize the
study of geography?
Lesson 1 Geography of the World

Essential Questions #3 Answer:


Into major themes (location, place,
region, movement, and human-
environment Interaction).
Lesson 2 Mapping the World

Essential Questions #1:


What were important advances in maps?
Lesson 2 Mapping the World

Essential Questions #1 Answer:


The work of Ptolemy and projections.
Lesson 2 Mapping the World

Essential Questions #2:


What are the main elements of maps?
Lesson 2 Mapping the World

Essential Questions #2 Answer:


Landforms, bodies of water, latitude
and longitude lines, compass rose, scale
Lesson 2 How Maps Help Us Study
History

Essential Questions #3:


How can new technology make better maps?
Lesson 2 How Maps Help Us Study
History

Essential Questions #3 Answer:


By making them more accurate.
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #1:


How do we learn about ancient societies?
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #2 Answer:


By studying the artifacts left behind.
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #2:


What do anthropologists study?
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #2 Answer:


Physical anthropologists study the
physical traits of humans. Cultural
anthropologists study human culture.
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #3:


Why do theories about the past change?
Lesson 3 Discovering the Past

Essential Questions #3 Answer:


New evidence and new interpretations
of evidence.
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #1:


Why do historians ask questions about the
past?
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #1 Answer:


Asking questions helps historians focus
their research and provide specific
answers.
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #2:


How do historians answer their questions?
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #2 Answer:


By critically studying primary and
secondary sources.
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #3:


What do historians do with their evidence?
Lesson 4 Interpreting the Past

Essential Questions #3 Answer:


Interpret the evidence and present their
interpretations in the form of articles,
books, or museum displays.

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