Government
Vocabulary
Map Skills
General
General 2
100
Run for office
What is a way a citizen can become a leader in the community?
100
The kind of weather a place has year after year.
What is climate?
100
Imaginary line that divdes the world into the Northern and Southern Hemisperes.
Waht is the Equator?
100
A region in which people share the same government.
What is a political region?
100
A book, artical, journal or letter written by a person who actually participated in a historical event.
What is primary source?
200
National
What level of government does the president belong to?
200
An area in which people share the same way of life such as religion or language.
What is a Cultural Region?
200
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a pennisula?
200
A document that provides every citizen with the ability to worship freely or have a speedy trial.
What is Bill of Rights?
200
Distance from equator, distance from oceans, elevation, location on the continent and ocean currents.
What are factors affecting climate?
300
All people are represented and get to vote.
What is a democratic government?
300
land drained by a river system.
What is drainage basin?
300
Where a river meets a large body of water.
What is mouth?
300
Written to proclaim the colonies freedom from England.
What is Declaration of Independence?
300
A phsyical feature on the earth's surface.
What is Landforms?
400
To make laws.
What is the job of Congress?
400
The wearing down of the earth's surface usually by wind or water.
What is erosion?
400
The beginning of a river.
What is the source?
400
This line passes through Europe, Africa and Antarctica.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Near water or major transportation routes.
What is where most U.S. large cities are built?
500
Checks and Balances
What is system in which one branch of our government does not become too powerful.
500
To send goods, manufactured produucts to other countries or places.
What is export?
500
The Appalachian Mountains are smaller that the Rocky Mountains because of something called.
What is erosion?
500
A product brought in the country.
What is import?
500
People from different countries living together.
What is cultural diversity?
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