Social Studies
The study of the past.
What is history?
A region that has a standard time throughout it.
What is a Time Zone?
A line that specifies - locates - the position of a point on the Earth's surface north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
A person who produces/makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
There are seven of these: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
What are Continents?
The study of the Earth's lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena/interaction.
What is Geography?
How many time zones are there throughout the world?
What is 24?
A line that specifies the position of a point on the Earth's surface east or west of the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
This map projection greatly distorts the sizes of land making them larger near the poles. It's a Mercator or Robinson Projection.
What is a Mercator projection?
This is the world's most populous country.
What is China?
The shared behaviors and beliefs of a group of people.
What is Culture?
As you move east (to the right), you add or subtract time (an hour) for each time zone you move through.
What is add?
This line represents zero (0) degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
A type of reference map that shows "political" boundaries.
What is a Political Map?
Rule by one person.
What is a Dictatorship?
The study of how goods and services are made, distributed, and used.
What is Economics?
It is 11 a.m. in Illinois (central time), it is __ in New York (eastern time).
What is 12 p.m. or noon?
This line is located at 90 degrees north latitude.
What is the North Pole?
A type of reference map that shows "physical" geographic features.
What is a Physical Map?
Citizens vote on people to represent them in government.
What is a Republic?
The study of systems of government political systems, and political behavior.
What is Political Science?
It is 9 p.m. in Iowa (central time), it is __ in California (pacific time).
What is 7 p.m.?
This line is located at 23 degrees, 26 minutes North latitude, it is the most northerly circle of latitude at which the sun may appear directly overhead as the Earth tilts. Is it the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn or Equator?
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
This map shows how how many people live in a certain area.
What is a Population Density Map?
This measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?