3rd Grade - Social Studies (TCAP)

Needs & Wants

100

Needs are things you must have to survive.True or False?

What is true?

200

This person starts a business with a new idea or to fulfill a community need.

Who is an entrepreneur?

300

People who use their skills to make something or do something for others are called natural resources.True or False?

What is false?

400

Name one resource a farming community could share with other communities.

What is fruit? or What are vegetables?

500

This is the definition for something people must have every day to survive.

What is a need?

Resources

100

This is the definition for something people would like to have but can live without.

What is a want?

200

This is something that people or businesses use. 

What is a resource?

300

Resources help people meet their ________________.

What are needs and wants?

400

This is an example of a human resource that is available for students in a classroom.

Who are teachers?

500

This is an example of a capital resource that we use to do Achieve 3000 and IXL. 

What is a computer?

Southern Colonies

100

This colony was founded for religious freedom.

What is Maryland?

200

Tobacco was one of the first crops grown in Georgia. True or False?

What is false?

300

This was the major economic activity in the Southern Colonies.

What is agriculture?

400

This city in the Southern Colonies developed into a large port. 

What is Savannah?

500

This school was the first college in the Southern Colonies.

What is William and Mary?

Oceans and Continents

100

This is how much of the Earth that is covered in water. (-about one-third, about two-thirds, about one quarter)

What are two thirds?

200

This is what the largest areas of land on Earth called.

What are continents?

300

In 1776, the Founding Fathers of America signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1783, the American Revolution ended with Great Britain surrendering. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson becomes the third President of the United States. John Adams was the second President of the United States, only serving one term, beginning in this year.

What is 1797?

400

These are the seven continents.

What are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?

500

This is what mapmakers put on maps to make finding locations easier.

What is a grid?

General

100

This tells the story of people and events from the past.

What is history?

200

This means arranging events in the order they happened.

What is chronological?

300

The American value of independence is outlined in this document.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

400

Producing paper causes people to cut down trees. This area where many trees are cut down is becoming smaller and smaller every year.

What is the Rainforest?

500

Of the following, this act is the only one where conflict is taking place - ballet dancers dancing, students studying for a test, brothers and sisters fighting, or a coach teaching a player how to dribble.

What is brothers and sisters fighting?