Overview Unit Review - 5th Grade Social Studies (Scott Foresman)

Question 1

Which BEST describes a democracy?

Accepted Answer

People have the power to make decisions about government.

Question 2

According to the United States Constitution, who runs the government?

Accepted Answer

the people

Question 3

What is one reason the United States is so varied?

Accepted Answer

People have moved here from all over the world.

Question 4

Method of bringing water to dry land

Accepted Answer

Irrigation

Question 5

Why is the climate in the southern United States warmer than in the North?

Accepted Answer

The southern states are closer to the equator.

Question 6

The study of Earth and how people use it

Accepted Answer

Geography

Question 7

An official member of a country

Accepted Answer

Citizen

Question 8

Person who leaves one country to live in another

Accepted Answer

Immigrant

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a reason national parks were created?

Accepted Answer

Give us a safe place to dispose of hazardous/toxic waste.

Question 10

The money a business has left over after it has paid all of its costs

Accepted Answer

Profit

Question 11

How the government counts the number of people in a country

Accepted Answer

Census

Question 12

Why do we divide the country into regions?

Accepted Answer

to make it easier to study geography

Question 13

Harmful substances added to the air, water and soil.

Accepted Answer

Pollution

Question 14

A person who starts their own business

Accepted Answer

Entrepreneur

Question 15

Why is the motto E Pluribus Unum a good saying?

Accepted Answer

13 colonies came together to form 1 united country.

Question 16

Something owned by an individual person

Accepted Answer

Private Property

Question 17

Why is the Pledge of Allegiance important?

Accepted Answer

It describes the basic ideals all Americans share.

Question 18

Important beliefs

Accepted Answer

Ideals

Question 19

An economy in which people are free to start their own business, own their own property, and purchase anything they want

Accepted Answer

Free Enterprise

Question 20

Written plan of government

Accepted Answer

Constitution

Question 21

System for buying and selling goods and services

Accepted Answer

Economy

Question 22

People who share the same customs and laguage

Accepted Answer

Ethnic Group

Question 23

Resources that can be replaced fairly quickly

Accepted Answer

Renewable Resources

Question 24

Anyone who buys or uses goods and services

Accepted Answer

Consumer

Question 25

A good that one country sells or sends out to another.

Accepted Answer

Export

Question 26

Moisture that falls to Earth in the form of rain, sleet, hail or snow

Accepted Answer

Precipitation

Question 27

Protecting and preserving resources

Accepted Answer

Conservation

Question 28

Which word identifies people who come to live in the United States from all over the world?

Accepted Answer

immigrants

Question 29

Materials used for making energy that formed from the remains of plants and animals over thousands of years

Accepted Answer

Fossil Fuels

Question 30

The business of growing crops & raising animals (farming)

Accepted Answer

Agriculture

Question 31

Large area with common features that make it different from other areas

Accepted Answer

Region

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of the free enterprise system?

Accepted Answer

choice of money

Question 33

The way of life of a group of people

Accepted Answer

Culture

Question 34

Government in which the people elect representatives to make laws and run the country

Accepted Answer

Republic

Question 35

The amount of a product that is available

Accepted Answer

Supply

Question 36

Which type of natural resources have played a big role in making energy and electricity?

Accepted Answer

fossil fuels

Question 37

Non-living substance found in the earth that is neither animal nor vegetable

Accepted Answer

Mineral

Question 38

Which term describes how much there is of a product and how much of it people will buy?

Accepted Answer

supply and demand

Question 39

Patterns in weather in an area over long periods in time

Accepted Answer

Climate

Question 40

All the things that surround us including air, water, land & tress

Accepted Answer

Environment

Question 41

Resources that CANNOT be easily replaced

Accepted Answer

Nonrenewable Resources

Question 42

Which of the following in a renewable resource?

Accepted Answer

trees

Question 43

A good that one country buys or brings IN from another

Accepted Answer

Import

Overview Unit Review - 5th Grade Social Studies (Scott Foresman)

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Overview Unit Review - 5th Grade Social Studies (Scott Foresman)

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