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New Mexico History Chapter 1
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bias ✔✔one-sided point of view
primary sources ✔✔eyewitness accounts of history. They include letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews.
secondary sources ✔✔information consist of descriptions and explanations that are created after a historical event has already taken place
artifacts ✔✔objects created by and used by humans
oral history ✔✔a spoken record of past events
perspective ✔✔point of view
historical thinking ✔✔using reading, analysis, and writing to develop an understanding of the past
geography ✔✔study of the earth's land, water, people, plants, and animals and how they relate to one another.
relative location ✔✔where a place is located in relation to another place (near Coronado Center, near the airport, etc.)
absolute location ✔✔Exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates or an address
latitude ✔✔distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees (lines run east-west, but measure north or south of the equator)
longitude ✔✔Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees (lines run north- south, but measure east or west of the prime meridian)
prime meridian ✔✔the meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
butte ✔✔a raised, flat area of land with steep cliffs, smaller than a mesa
malpais ✔✔fields of lava near Grants, NM
Llano Escatado ✔✔"staked plain" in eastern NM
tributary ✔✔a stream or river that flows into a larger river
reservoir ✔✔a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
demography ✔✔scientific study of human populations.(how people vote, what they eat, how they view political or social issues, etc).
