What are the Social Studies Part 1
The study of location, climate and resources of an area.
What is geography?
In American Government, the people vote every four years for this leader.
Scientific theories suggest human beings evolved first on this continent.
What is Africa?
Christopher Columbus sailed his four voyages across the Atlantic for this country.
What is Spain?
This product was planted in the Caribbean and is used as a sweetener and made into rum.
What is sugar?
A belief system, sometimes about gods, the afterlife, and how to be a good person.
What is religion?
This is an example of a weak or "bad" economy.
What are low wages, unemployment, inflation?
What is "migration"?
Columbus was determined to find this product when he arrived in the Caribbean.
What is gold?
What is the Old World?
A system of money, trade, and jobs.
What is an economy?
This issue is the most serious geographic problem our world faces today.
What is climate change or global warming?
This is the term for humans who wandered from place to place, looking for sources of food.
What are nomads/nomadic?
These were the people who Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Caribbean.
Who were the Taino?
This is widespread disease that strikes a huge segment of the population.
What is an epidemic?
The system which decides how people are ruled, how laws are created and who has power.
What is a government?
This is one example of a social issue.
What is gender equality, racial equality, LGBTQ rights?
Scientists believe humans arrived in North America by one of these two ways.
What is walking or by boat?
This was the movement of products and diseases across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus' voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This means that a person has the ability to fight off disease because they have been exposed to it before.
What is immunity?
A collection of a group's food, clothing, language and holiday practices.
What is culture?
This is the most widely held set of religious beliefs in the United States today.
What is Christianity?
This prehistoric creature looked like a huge shaggy elephant and was a source of food, weapons clothing and shelter for early humans on earth.
What is a mastodon or wooly mammoth?
Foods like potatoes and cassava are calorically dense, which has the effect of this on African and European populations.
What is a population increase?
This new source of labor (workers) was kidnapped and brought to the New World after native people died from disease.
Who/what were enslaved Africans?