SOCIAL SCIENCE
REVIEW
1. What is nationalism?
2. What are the five themes of geography?
3. What are the seven continents?
4. What are the four oceans?
5. Who rules in a democracy?
6. What is anthropology?
7. What is primary evidence?
8. What does A.D. mean?
9. In which political system do the people elect representatives to rule?
10. Which political system does a king or queen lead?
11. What century is 936 AD?
12. What is a subculture?
13. What lies at 0 degrees latitude?
14. What is ethnocentrism?
15. What are the three basic economic systems?
16. What are the four basic economic questions?
17. What is located at 0 degrees longitude?
18. What supply is high and demand is low, what happens to prices?
19. What is an example of secondary evidence?
20. What are three primary needs?
21. Which group on the political spectrum wants change through peaceful means?
22. What condition exists when supply is smaller than demand?
23. What is perception?
24. What is the science that studies past cultures by examining artifacts?
25. Which group on the political spectrum sees both sides of an issue?
26. Which political system is ruled directly by the people?
27. What is absolute location?
28. What is relative location?
29. What is the absence of law and government called?
30. What are mores?
31. What are folkways?
32. Which economic system has the most freedom for individuals?
33. Which economic system has the least amount of freedom?
34. What does it mean to be objective?
35. Who rules in a dictatorship?
36. What is cultural diffusion?
37. What group on the political spectrum is willing to use force to achieve new ways?
38. What kind of evidence/source is a textbook an example of?
39. What do lines of latitude measure?
40. What do lines of longitude measure?
41. Which economic system is ruled by the community’s elders?
42. What are secondary needs?
43. What does barter mean?
44. The amount of goods that people are willing to buy are called what?
45. When demand is high and supply is low, what happens to prices?
46. Which theme of geography would be used to describe the relationship between people and their environment?
47. Which theme of geography describes the natural and cultural features of an area?
48. Which theme of geography describes a part of the world with different characteristics than other parts of the world?
49. In which century were you born?
50. What does polygamy mean?
51. Who rules in patriarchal family?
52. How much power do the people have in a totalitarian government?
53. What are wants?
54. What came first, BC or AD?
55. Are republicans usually liberal or conservative?
56. What is a nuclear family?
57. What is culture shock?
58. Who rules in an oligarchy?
59. Which theme of geography deals with the relationship between places?
60. What are the five social sciences we have studied?
SOCIAL SCIENCE
REVIEW
Answers
1. Extreme pride in one’s nation
2. location, place, movement, interaction, region
3. Asia, Europe, Africa, Antarctica, North America, South America, Australia
4. Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic
5. the people
6. study of cultures
7. first-hand accounts
8. Anno Domini
9. republic
10. monarchy
11. 10th
12. a small culture within a larger one
13. equator
14. thinking that your culture is superior
15. tradition, market, command
16. What to produce? How to produce it? Who gets that which is produced?
17. prime meridian
18. decrease
19. textbook
20. food, clothing, shelter
21. liberals
22. scarcity
23. a way of seeing things that is influenced by your prior experiences
24. archaeology
25. moderates
26. democracy
27. exact location, based on longitude and latitude coordinates
28. something near the location is used to describe where it is
29. anarchy
30. moral attitudes and customs of a group
31. manners or social customs common to a group
32. market
33. command
34. seeing the many sides of an issue, not involving one’s opinion
35. one person, one who has not necessarily been chosen by the people
36. spreading of ideas to another culture
37. radicals (also called revolutionaries)
38. secondary evidence
39. north and south
40. east and west
41. tradition
42. love, friendship, security and order
43. trade, or exchange of goods directly for other goods
44. demand
45. increase
46. interaction
47. place
48. region
49. 20th
50. more than one spouse
51. a man (father/husband)
52. none
53. things that people desire, beyond that which is necessary for survival
54. BC
55. conservative
56. parents and children only
57. reaction to a rapid change in cultural environment
58. a small group
59. movement
60. geography, history, political science, economics, culture
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