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What does consensus mean?
What is a ballot?
Grade 6 Vocabulary (Social Studies PAT)
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What is a ballot?
a type of test
a map of the city
a school paper
a paper with the names to vote for
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What does consensus mean?
People fight over the answer
A group votes
One person makes all the decisions
Everyone talks and agrees on one decision
3
What is a council?
A group of builders
A group of sports players
A group of elected people who make decisions for a local area
A team of doctors
4
What is a political party?
a group of people who work for a company
a place to celebrate
a birthday party for government
a group of people with the same ideas about the government
5
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A country with no leader
A type of school
The king or queen is head of state
A king or queen rules alone
6
What is a tyrant?
A teacher
A principal
A president
A ruler who takes power in a cruel way
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What is a referendum?
A type of election for a mayor
A new law made by the prime minister
A list of rules for schools
A vote where citizens decide on a government issue
8
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
A type of plant in Canada
The name the Six Nations people use for themselves (Iroquois)
A group of European settlers
A tribe from Africa
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What is a tribe in ancient Athens?
a political group
a team
a type of animal group
a school
10
Who were citizens in ancient Athens?
Only slaves
All men and women
Everyone who lived in Athens
People born in Athens who could take part in government (not women)
11
What is Direct Democracy?
When the king made all the laws
When soldiers make all the rules
When people vote themselves on decisions
When people vote for others to decide
12
What are values?
Rules for how to play a game
The number of votes someone gets
Ideas about what is important and right
The price of things in a store
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What is representation?
Having the right to think and speak as you wish
When students make all the school rules
When a person speaks only for themselves
When elected leaders speak for the citizens
14
What is a responsibility?
Something you do for fun
Something you should do because it is the right thing
Something you only do once
Something you must do only at school
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What does “rural” mean?
Airports and highways
Places with tall buildings
Municipal districts and counties
Shopping centers
16
What is an opposition member?
A person who lost an election
A student in school
A person who agrees with the government
An elected person who is not part of the ruling government
17
What does it mean to discriminate?
To treat someone in a certain way, often unfairly
To treat everyone the same
To be kind to everyone
To give a gift to a friend
18
What is a confederacy?
A conference
A type of animal
A partnership between nations or groups
A war between two cities
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What are departments of government in a local area?
Teams that play sports
Places to go swimming
Offices that provide service to the community
Buisnesses that sell clothes
20
What does it mean to nominate someone?
To tell them to leave the country
To send them a letter
To say they should be a candidate for an elected position
To send them a letter D. To give them a gift
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Who is a war chief in the Haudenosaunee confederacy?
A person who writes laws
A person who makes tools
A hunter who catches animals
A person chosen by each nation to sit on the Grand Council
22
What is a society?
A group of people from one family
A group of animals living in the wild
People who share the same government rules and laws
People who share the same house
23
What are individual rights?
Rights only for groups
Rights you have as a person
Rights that change every day
Rights given to adults only
24
Who is a trustee?
A person who is on a school board
A student at school
A police officer
A person who builds schools
25
What is the rule of law?
Rules only for students
Laws that apply to everyone equally
A list of house rules
Laws that apply only to leaders
26
What does compromise mean?
To leave a problem alone
To make a decision that makes everyone happy
To let only one person choose
To fight about a problem
27
What is a decree?
a decision made by leaders
a new building
a special food
a special drink
28
What is a motion?
A law made by the prime minister
An idea talked about and voted on in a meeting
A plan for building roads
A way to travel
29
What does “urban” mean?
Farmland and forests
Deserts and rivers
Cities, towns, and villages
Mountains and lakes
30
What is a budget?
an amount of money
a book of names
the weather
a receipt
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Who is a pine tree chief?
A leader chosen for special skills or interest in public matters
A soldier in the army
A builder of houses
A person who grows pine trees
32
Who is the defendant in a court case?
the judge
a person who makes the complaint
a person who is accused of doing something wrong
a person who cleans the court
33
What are constituencies?
Places where people go shopping
A group of judges
Rules made by the government
Voting areas in Alberta
34
What does the local government do?
Is elected in cities, towns, and villages to provide services
Works in every country
Helps only the police
Makes rules for one province
35
What is a bylaw?
A law made by local government
A national holiday
A new building
A rule at school rule
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Who is a citizen?
Someone born in or who legally joins a country
Someone who moves a lot
Someone who is part of a sports team
Someone who visits another country
37
What is a fact?
A funny story
A statement that can be proven true
What someone thinks
Something that cannot be true
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What do advisory committees do?
Give advice to the council
Teach children
Grow food
Fix roads
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Who were the suffragettes?
Men who started wars
Children who protested homework
Women who fought for the right to vote
People who wrote books
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What is Equity?
Only some people get help
Everyone has the same opportunities in life
Giving everyone the same things all the time
Everyone looks the same
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Who are constituents?
People who fix buildings
People who work for the police
People who vote in the area a leader represents
People who live outside the country
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What does it mean to challenge a law?
To write a new law
To ignore the law
To follow the law
To go to court to try to change the law
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What is an act?
a type of election
a new story
a classroom rule
a bill that becomes a law
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What happened at the assembly in Athens?
Farmers sold their food
Only the king made decisions
Citizens talked, listened, and voted
People went to dance and sing
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What is an orator?
someone who speaks in public
someone who writes letters
someone who teaches
someone who sings songs
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What is freedom?
Having the right to think and speak as you wish
Doing anything you want, even if it's wrong
Always agreeing with others
Being told what to think
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What is equality?
Letting only some people vote
Giving the same to people who look the same
Treating only your friends nicely
Treating everyone the same, no matter who they are
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Who is the plaintiff?
a person who cleans the courtroom
a judge
a person who is accused of doing something wrong
a person who makes the complaint
49
What does "ancient" mean?
Something from next week
Something from over 2,500 years ago
Something very new
Something from last year
50
What is the United Nations?
An organization that works for peace and helps protect people’s rights
A team that plays sports
A group that builds new cities
A group of schools around the world
51
What does a historical map show?
The best places to visit today
Where plants grow
What a place looked like in the past
Where to go on vacation
52
Who are civil servants?
teachers at a school
people who work in stores
people who run or work in government departments
farmers who grow crops
53
What are collective rights?
Rights that protect a group of people
Rights for teachers only
Rights that change every year
Rights for only one person
54
Who was Socrates?
A famous athlete
A escaped slave
A warrior
A famous thinker
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What is an issue?
A fun event
a solution
a way to vote
a concern or problem
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What is an agenda?
a kind of ancient diary
a rule in the city
a list of people in a tribe
a list of topics for a meeting
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What is equity?
Treating everyone exactly the same
Treating people fairly based on their needs
Giving prizes to the fastest person
Only helping people you know
58
What is a symbol?
a number in math?
a type of map
a thing that stands for something else
a tool
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What is the Magna Carta?
A new law made in Canada
A book of fairy tales
A document from 1215 that gave people rights in England
A map of Canada
60
What does majority rule mean?
When no one votes
When one person makes all the decisions
When 51% or more people vote the same way
When children make the rules
61
what is a bill?
a proposed law that must be approved
what you pay after a dinner
a school rule
a leader in a city
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What does a political map show?
countries, cities, boarders
the roads people use
where animals live
the weather in different places
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What is a clan in the Haudenosaunee culture?
A small house in the forest
A large group of related families
A group of animals
A type of weapon
64
Who is a cabinet minister?
A police officer
An elected person in charge of a government department
A person who builds houses
A person who works in a school
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What does a physical map show?
Places where people live
Buildings and streets
The names of countries
Rivers, mountains, and land
66
What are generations?
A group of teachers
A group of friends
A line of family members over time
A type of government
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What is a municipal district?
A city with tall buildings
A type of school
A small island
A rural area with its own local government
68
Who were metics in Athens?
Children of slaves
People who were born in Athens
Visitors from Sparta
Residents who were born outside Athens
69
What is a city-state?
A farm far from the city
A city that controls the land around it and is independent
A group of cities working together
A part of a big country
70
What does common good mean?
Helping one person win
Letting only adults vote
Doing what helps only you
Helping most people in the community
71
What is a pillar?
A person who speaks in public
A type of food
Something that hold up a building
A tool
72
What are subsidies?
taxes people pay
money people give to the government
a prize for a contest
money the government gives to people to help them
73
Who is a councillor?
A school teacher
A person who delivers mail
A person elected to local government
A firefighter
74
What does diversity mean?
People eating the same food
Respecting people from different cultures
People from one background
Everyone wearing the same clothes
75
What are government services?
Stores that sell things
Games for children
What people do at home
Things the government gives like schools and hospitals
76
What is an opinion?
A law in the constitution
A rule everyone follows
Something that can be proven
A belief someone has
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What is a magistrate?
a soilder in battle
a teacher
a speaker in the assembly
a government court worker
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What is a forum?
a school library
a place where public discussions happen
a courtroom
a place for shopping
79
What is justice?
Fair treatment of people
Breaking the law
Making fun of others
Getting your way every time
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What is a lottery?
names chosen by chance
a race to find gold
a game with prizes
a list of names
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What is injustice?
An action that is not fair
A fair law
Something that is fair to all
A kind of government
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What is a representative democracy?
Citizens make every decision
People vote for leaders to speak and decide for them
Everyone rules at the same time
One person makes all the rules
83
What is a petition?
A written request with people’s signatures
A secret message
A letter from the government
A phone call from a mayor
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What is suffrage?
The right to vote
The right to play sports
The right to write a law
The right to go to school
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Who was Pericles?
A king from Sparta
A famous war general and speaker
A writer
a Athens slave
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Who were slaves in Athens?
People who ruled the city
People who were free to vote
People who were owned by others or by the city
People who worked as teachers
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What is collective identity?
A group of people who all look the same
A name given to one person
A list of jobs in a city
A shared belief system, like the same culture and language
88
What does a superintendent do?
Plays sports with students
Writes books for kids
Delivers food to schools
Is in charge of running the schools in an area
89
What where the 3 pillars or Athens Democracy?
the assembly, the council of 500, the courts
the leaders, the people, the gods
3 tall buildings
the army, the king, the slaves
90
What is the “Speech from the Throne”?
A speech by the president
A speech from a king
A speech by the mayor
A plan the government shares at the start of a session
91
What does accommodating mean?
Making rules harder for some people
Doing things the same way for everyone
Asking people to move
Changing things so everyone has a fair chance
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What does the federal government do?
Makes rules for the whole country
Runs one province
Helps only one city
Helps only the school
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What is an epic?
A funny story
a newspaper
a song
A long poem about a hero
94
What does the provincial government do?
Helps only farmers
Works only with the army
Makes rules for the whole country
Is elected by people in one province
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What is a municipal area?
A national park
A region with its own local government
A big store
A place with no government
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What is a constitution?
A list of names of people in the country
A book of stories about a country
The supreme law that explains how a government works
A list of fun rules for a school
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What is an official language?
A language only kids speak
A made-up language
A language that is a legal part of a country
A language used in texting
