Academic Vocabulary
The study of people, places, and how they live together.
What is social studies?
Political, Economy, Geography, and Social
What is PEGS?
Reinstate the question and include your answer.
What is a claim?
The number of people living in a place.
What is population?
Something found in nature that people use (like water or oil).
What is a natural resource?
The beliefs, traditions, and way of life of a group of people.
What is Culture?
The category of power such as the type of government, laws, and leaders.
What is political?
Provide cited evidence from the text.
What is evidence?
A place where people live.
What is a settlement?
How advanced or wealthy a country is.
What is development?
A group of people who share a culture and live in the same area.
What is society?
People meeting their needs by jobs, money, trade, and production.
What is economic?
Provide reasoning to explain how or why the evidence supports your claim.
What is reasoning?
The way things are arranged across space.
What is a spatial pattern?
A feature that makes movement easier (like a river or port).
What is a transportation corridor?
A part of the world with common features like language, geography, or culture.
What is a region?
This describes where people live and how the land affects their life?
What is geographic?
East-west lines that measure north-south of the equator.
What is latitude?
How something (like people) is spread out.
What is distribution?
A feature that makes movement harder (like a mountain or desert).
What is transportation barrier?
Studies land and where people live.
What is a geographer?
This describes how people live together, religion, education, family, and culture.
What is social?
North-south lines that measure east-west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
How closely packed people are in a given area.
What is density?
Jobs or work people do to earn money.
What is economic activity?
Studies the past and how it connects to now.
What is a historian?
Mayor, and town council.
Who are the leaders of a town or city?
0° latitude line (north/south divider)
What is equator?
When people move from one place to another.
What is migration?
Where something is.
What is location?
Studies money, trade, and resources.
What is an economist?
Natural features on the Earth's surface like deserts, mountains, hills, rivers, and plateaus.
What are landforms?
0° longitude line (east/west divider)
What is the prime meridian?
Something that causes people to leave a place.
What is a push factor?
What a location is like (physical or human features).
What is place?
Studies government and laws.
What is a political scientist?
Festivals, schools, families.
What are events or places in a community?
The exact spot using coordinates.
What is absolute location?
Something that attracts people to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
An area that shares common features.
What is a region?
Location, region, place, movement, and HEI.
What is the Five Themes of Geography?
Five Themes of Geography.
What is location, place, region, movement, and HEI?
This describes a place in relation to others.
What is relative location?
How people adjust to their environment.
What is adaptation?
How people, goods, and ideas move.
What is movement?
Half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
How people change their environment.
What is modification?
How people adapt to or change the environment.
What is HEI-Human Environment Interaction?