Themes of Social Studies
What is the study of past events called?
What is History?
What term describes the time before written records?
Prehistory
What shows a sequence of events in the order they happened?
What is a Timeline?
What is the term for the surroundings where people live?
What is Environment?
Human-Environment Interaction studies how humans affect the __________ and how the environment affects humans.
What is environment?
What does Geography study?
What is The Earth?
Name three examples of artifacts that tell us about past lives.
What are tools, pottery, or weapons?
What does B.C. stand for?
What is Before Christ?
Physical geography studies natural features like what?
Name at least two!
What is landforms, climate, plants, and animals?
Place describes a location by its __________ and __________ characteristics.
What is physical and human?
Civics studies government __________ and citizenship duties.
What is Processes?
Fossils are remains of what type of living things?
What are plants or animals?
What does A.D. stand for?
What is Anno Domini?
Human geography studies people, their ____________, and how they interact with the environment.
What is culture/community?
Movement describes how what three things move from one place to another?
What are people, things, and ideas?
Economics is the study of the production and distribution of what?
What is goods and services?
Who studies past cultures from artifacts?
What is an Archaeologist?
What are the modern equivalents of B.C. and A.D.?
What is B.C.E. and C.E.?
The environment is the ___________ surroundings where people live.
What is natural?
Regions are areas with common __________ like climate or culture.
What are characteristics?
What social studies component focuses on rules, laws, and citizen responsibilities?
What is Civics?
Who studies human origins and culture?
What is an Anthropologist?
What does B.C.E. and C.E stand for?
What is Before Common Era and Common Era?
What does GPS and GIS stand for?
What is Global Positioning System and Geographic Information Systems?
Location describes the exact spot on Earth using __________ and __________.
What is latitude and longitude?