Social Studies 1st Nine Weeks (2023)

The ability and willingness to produce a good or service

How is a monarchy and an authoritarian government similar?

Features that are passed down through generations and make up culture. Ex: language, laws, religion, values, etc

Which form of government gives the people political power?

Rapid population growth can result in large increases in the _______ if there is a shortage of clean food and water

What is the process that breaks rocks down into tiny pieces?

An economy where consumers and producers are free to decide what price they want to charge or pay for goods & services

The spread of suburbs away from the core city

Location is described as where something is. It can be

The development of machine-powered production and manufacturing

______ is a process involving huge blocks of Earth's crust & upper mantle that are constantly reshaping Earth's surface

The imaginary line halfway between the north and south poles, also known as 0-degree latitude line

The powers of the United States government are divided into 3 branches:

What is the primary reason that some areas of Earth are consistently warmer than other areas of the Earth?

What is the main cause for the difference between the tropics and the temperate zones?

A government controlled by a single person or small group is an

Describes a place's exact position on Earth in terms of latitude and longitude

A country increases its economic development by finding more resources, investing in capital goods, and

The study of how people meet their wants and needs

Earth travels around the Sun along an oval-shaped path called an

Ecosystems can change over time because of physical processes or

A source where the information comes from a person who experienced the event. Ex: letter, journal/diary, artifact

A set of basic rules and principles for organizing a government and making it work

A mix of human and nonhuman features of a given location

The loss of forest cover in a region

Seams of the Earth's crust found between plates where they slide against each other are called

The desire for a certain good or service

Timelines, periods, primary and secondary sources, and historical maps are all used by ______ to study the past

The number of types of variety of living things in a region or ecosystem

The number of people per square unit of land area or the people per square mile

A group of plants and animals that depend on one anohter and their environment for survival.

What economic questions do societies have to answer?

Explores how people, goods, and services get from one place to another

The location of a place relative to another place

What is an example of a migration pull factor?

The spread of traits from one culture to another. Ex: religion, clothing, food, customs, values, language, laws

The time before people invented writing is considered

What form of government does the United States have?