What does a geographer study?
Features of the Earth
What does a historian study?
What do economists study?
What does a political scientist study?
Who is in charge, how people get their power, and how people use their power
What are social sciences?
the study of how people live in groups
What is the definition of a geographer?
A social scientist who studies the natural and constructed features of Earth's surface.
What is the definition of a historian?
A social scientist who studies the past.
What is the definition of an economist?
A social scientist who studies the economy of a community.
What is the definition of political scientist?
What are artifacts?
things people use in their daily lives
What is a natural feature?
Features on our Earth's surface. Things like water, land, and plants.
Historians are most interested in ___________ years of human history.
The last thousand
Need
What artifacts might a political scientist look at?
legal forms, election ads, voter information
Social scientists do what, in order to figure out why people behave the way they do?
They watch people
What is a constructed feature?
What is an artifact that historians look at?
Birth certificates, baby books, family photos, letters, diaries, family treasures
What is one way people are influenced to purchase items?
Out of need
Advertisements
the price of the product
What is a governments job?
To make and carry out rules and laws
What type of social scientist would look at the cost of items?
Economist
Is this a natural or constructed feature? A Dam
Before written records, historians studied...
artifacts (pottery, old tools)
fossiles
cave paintings
What type of advertisement is this?
Celebrity endorsement
What are some services taxes are used for?
police and fire departments
public transportation
building/ fixing transportation systems
Which social scientist would look at landforms on a map?
Geographer