Vocabulary
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The Study of the Social
Past Tense
100

What is something that stands for something else

What is a symbol

100
What are directions between the cardinal directions
What are intermediate directions
100
What is a way of life?
What is culture
100

What is a half of a sphere

What is a hemisphere

100
What is the study of the past?
What is history
200

What are features that have been formed by nature?

What are physical features.

200
What are surroundings like school or home?
What is environment
200
What is a border, or the outside edge of a place?
What is a boundary
200

What tells the subject of a map?

What is a map title

200
What are features that have been made by people?
What are human features
300

What divides the Earth into the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere?

What is the prime meridian

300
What is the kind of weather a place has over a long time?
What is climate
300

What is a small map or globe that shows where the place on the main map is located; within a country, state or even a continent?

What is a locator

300

What is the study of how people use resources to meet their needs

What is economics

300
What is a line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South pole?
What is the equator
400

What is a system for deciding what is best for a group of people?

What is a government

400
What is an area with at least one feature that sets it apart from other areas?
What is a region
400

What are lines that cross each other to form a pattern of squares?

What is a grid

400

What is one of the 7 main areas of land on the Earth?

What is a continent

400
What is the way people in a state, region or country use resources to meet their needs
What is the economy
500
What is the study of Earth's surface and tehw ay people use it.
What is geography
500

the system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are made, used, and reglulated

What is heraldry

500

What are North, South, East and West

What are cardinal directions

500

What is something that can be found in nature that people can use?

What is a natural resource

500
What is a person who studies the past?
What is a historian
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