Something that stands for something else. For example, a flag, Uncle Sam, Statue of Liberty.
What is a symbol?
100
The study of Earth and the way people live on it an use it.
What is geography?
100
To exchange goods and services for other goods and services.
What is barter?
100
The entire way of life of a people, including their customs, beliefs, and language.
What is culture?
100
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, retified in 1791.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
A firsthand account of an event or an artifact created during the period of history that is being studied. For example, artifacts, diaries, photographs.
What is a primary source?
200
The place, polition. or boundaries where something is or can be located.
What is location?
200
Things people must have in order to live.
What are needs?
200
a set of assumptions about people in a given category, either positive or negative, often based on half truths and nontruths.
What are sterotypes?
200
A givernment in which the people take part.
What is a democracy?
300
The story or record of what happened in the past.
What is history?
300
A map that shows the boundaries of states and countries.
What is a political map?
300
The problem of limited resources.
What is scarcity?
300
Working togeter toward a common purpose.
What is cooperation?
300
The part of the government that carries out the laws.
What is the executive branch?
400
An account of the past based on information from primary sources and written by someone who was not an eyewitness to those events. For example, textbooks, encyclopedias.
What is a secondary source?
400
Examples: mountain, valley, hill, plain, plateau
What are landforms?
400
Services provided by the government and paid for by taxes. Examples: fire fighting, law enforcement.
What is government service?
400
The settling of a dispute by each side's agreeing to give up part of its demands.
What is compromise?
400
In the United States, the supreme law and plan of the national government, adopted in 1789.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
500
A person who comes to live in a country from his or her home country.
What is an immigrant?
500
How people depend upon, adapt to and modify their environment.
What is human environmental interaction?
500
An economic system in which people are free to operate their businesses as they see fit.
What is free enterprise?
500
Government, ecomony, education, family, religion
What are social institutions?
500
Things that citizens should or must do in order to support the government. For example, voting, paying taxes, obeying the law.