Social Studies Unit 1 Lesson 1-3 Review

Question 1

Scientists believe that the first people came to the Americas by walking across a land bridge from Asia to North America

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What is a bowl-shaped landform that is lower than the area around it?

Accepted Answer

basin

Question 3

Culture is a way of life shared by a group of people.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Geographers study the natural and human features of Earth's Surface

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The color blue on maps stand for mountains

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Someone who comes from another place to live in a country is called an immigrant.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What is the way people use resources to meet their wants

Accepted Answer

economy

Question 8

What is the main job of government?

Accepted Answer

to make and carry out rules and laws

Question 9

Which group of people contributed the cowboy to the United States?

Accepted Answer

Latinos

Question 10

Which kind of special-purpose map would help you plan a driving trip to the Grand Canyon?

Accepted Answer

road map

Question 11

Lines of longitude and latitude are imaginary lines used to show the location of places on Earth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

American Indians are a diverse people, with many different tribes and languages

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Americans whose ancestors came from countries like China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and India are known as?

Accepted Answer

Asian Americans

Question 14

To create a map of the physical features in your region, you will need to

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 15

A house is a human feature

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

When land is not near an ocean, it is an?

Accepted Answer

inland

Question 17

Long ago, the Mississippi River was most like a highway because goods were moved on it

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Which of these do archaeologists study to discover things about the past?

Accepted Answer

objects used in the past

Question 19

Which of these items did African Americans contribute to our culture?

Accepted Answer

gospel music and jazz

Question 20

History is the study of the past.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What is an area that shares similar features ?

Accepted Answer

region

Question 22

What is a high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it.

Accepted Answer

plateau

Question 23

1. The study of the natural and human features on Earth's surface is called

Accepted Answer

geography

Question 24

What is the study of governments and how they work

Accepted Answer

political science

Question 25

A low, flat land that is near the ocean is called a(n)?

Accepted Answer

coastal plain

Question 26

A person whose ancestors came from Cuba are called?

Accepted Answer

Lations

Question 27

What do you look at to understand what the symbols on a map stand for?

Accepted Answer

map key

Question 28

What is a settlement that is ruled by another country?

Accepted Answer

colony

Question 29

A map scale shows the distance between places

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Economist study the way people in a community meet their needs and wants

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Why did the first Chinese immigrants come to the United States?

Accepted Answer

to find gold

Question 32

Which social scientist would be most interested in your great-aunt’s diary?

Accepted Answer

a historian

Question 33

What tool helps a geographer find where physical features are found?

Accepted Answer

map

Question 34

The form of government in which people vote for their leaders is called

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 35

Descendants of the first people to settle in the Americas are

Accepted Answer

American Indians

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