7th Grade
Study Guide #1
Chapters 1-2
The following are topics that you should study for this
test. Please use your notes,
worksheets, quizzes, and book to help you study for this test. Remember to study a little each night to
help you better prepare and find a good environment to limit your
distractions.
- Latitude
and Longitude
- Able
to give location using Lat/Long
- 5
themes of geography and at least 1 example of each
- Map terms
( key, compass rose, title, scale)
- Types
of maps – physical and political
- KEY
TERMS for Ch 1-2
- Difference
between history and prehistory
- Ways
we understand the past – graphic organizer *possible essay
- Uses
of fire
- Advantages
of domestication
- Advantages
of settled life
- Mesopotamia
map – know the surrounding physical features
- Mesopotamia
as “Fertile Crescent”
- Tigris
and Euphrates Rivers – how they are rivers of life and death
- Sumer
- 2
empires of Mesopotamia – Babylonia and Assyria (use the chart we created)
- Hammurabi’s
Code
- Writing
in Mesopotamia
- Phoenician
Alphabet
- Rise
of Israelites
- Abraham
- Beliefs
of Judaism
- Effects
of Judaism on other religions
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!