Midterm+Review+Sheet

6th grade study sheet for midterms Vocabulary to know
 * Polar projection |||| Weather |||||| Climate || atmosphere |||| biosphere ||
 * Landform |||| Geography || * Region |||||| Equal area proportions |||| Andes ||
 * Inca |||| Steppe |||||| Plateau || Mountains |||| Tundra ||
 * Domestication of animals || Culture |||||| Prehistory || Archeology |||| Government ||
 * Customs |||| Technology |||| Anthropologist |||| Hunting and gathering |||| Ice age ||
 * New stone age |||| Fossils |||||| Cultivation of land || Archaeologists |||| Values ||
 * Old stone age |||| Homo sapiens |||||| Site || Artifacts |||| history ||
 * Nile river |||| Egypt |||||| delta || Pharaoh |||| Dynasty ||
 * papyrus |||| hieroglyphics || pyramids |||||||| Valley of the kings || Ore ||
 * Ganges |||| Alexander the great |||||| Indus || Arabian sea |||| Deccan plain ||
 * Mohenjo daro |||| passes |||||| The noble ones || Vedas |||| ahimsa ||
 * Mount Everest |||| Hindu Kush |||||| Diamond shape || plain |||| Bhagavad gita ||
 * Bay of Bengal |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Aryan |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">subcontinent || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Harappa |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Monsoon ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Brahman |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">castes |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Upanishads || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">atman |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Reincarnation ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">yoga |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">diwali ||||||  ||   ||||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Himalayas |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">basins |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Ganzu || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">species |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">North China Plain ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Great wall of China |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Rome |||||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Pacific Ocean || <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Tarim basin |||| <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Zhonghua ||
 * Silk road |||| Yangtze River |||||| rice wheat soybeans || bronze |||| Confucius ||
 * Huang he |||| horses |||||| Kunlun mountains || Shang Dynasty |||| Oracle bone ||
 * Confucius |||| Zhou |||||| philosophy || Five relationships |||| Lau tzu ||
 * Heavenly mandate |||| Warring states |||||| Taoism || Shihuangdi |||| qin ||

What are the main teachings of Hinduism? How did China's geography affect people in ancient times? Describe the main achievements of Shihuangdi's Rule (Qin dynasty ) Compare Hinduism and Buddhism || What countries border India? What are the main teachings and practices of Buddhism? List the main ideas of Confucius. List the teachings of Lao Tsu How did the rise of scholars help Chinese civilization? list the earliest Cultural Achievements of ancient China Why were Nomads important to the development of China? China's geographic isolation may have created a culture that resists ideas form outside of China ||
 * This kind of map divides the earth into equal sized areas ||
 * With a compass, this kind of map is useful for navigating ships because the latitude and longitude lines are straight ||
 * The center of this map is the North or South pole ||
 * A is any area of the planet’s surface that has a single common feature ||
 * A ___ is a feature of the earth’s surface__ ||
 * ___ is the typical weather condition of a given area__ ||
 * The_ protects us from the sun’s harmful rays ||
 * The _ includes the earth’s surface and all the things that live on it. ||
 * The study of the earth and its people is called ___. ||
 * Give 4 examples of Regions defined by landforms || List examples of regions defined by Human boundaries ||
 * List examples of a regions defined by climate || How do we know about people who lived before history was written down? ||
 * What Important changes took place when Stone Age people settled down? || Why did an agricultural society emerged in the Fertile Crescent? ||
 * What were the Major achievements Mesopotamian civilization? || Describe the Special features of the Nile Valley ||
 * Describe Egyptian religious beliefs || Where do the Ganges and Indus Rivers flow from? ||
 * Where is the Earth’s highest mountain?