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EOY-Review 2016-17
Social Studies Blue Print
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Three Gorges Dam | - the world’s largest hydroelectric dam based on generating capacity; located in China. |
| Urbanization | - the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas. |
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | - the total (market) value of all goods and services produced in a country in a given year |
| subsistence farming | farming to grow only enough food for families to eat, not to sell |
| Treaty | -an agreement between two or more countries |
| Buddhism | a religion founded in 525 B.C. in India by Siddhartha Gautama |
| settlement | a place where people establish a community |
| fertile soil | on the plain is ideal for growing crops |
| Indigenous | native to the area in which something is found |
| seasons | change around the world due to tilt and the revolution of the Earth. |
| Hemisphere | - a half of the Earth. |
| Mediterranean climates | a climate that has hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters |
| literacy rate | the percentage of people who can read and write |
| latitude | are imaginary horizontal lines that measure the distance north or south of the equator |
| longitude | are imaginary verticle lines that measure the distance east or west of the prime meridian |
| Apartheid | the legal separation of the races; a system that denied black South Africans their rights |
| cultural diffusion | a spreading of ideas and practices from one culture to another. |
| Export | goods being sent out/sold of one country to another country. |
| Import | goods being shipped in/bought from one country to another. |
| Cold War | a long period of political tension without fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union, roughly from 1948 to 1991 |
| Push/Pull Factors | things that push people out (war, lack of jobs, food, etc.); or pull people in (looking for a better life, jobs, education, etc.). |
| Monsoons | a wind in the Indian Ocean that brings a change in season; the winds during the summer months bring heavy rains. In winter months they are very dry. |
| Personnel | people employed in an organization or engaged in an organized undertaking such as military service. |
| Infer | deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. |
| conclusion | a judgment or decision reached by reasoning |
| conclude | arrive at a judgment or opinion by reasoning |
| Significant | sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy. |
| political cartoon | are defined as illustrations or comic strips containing a political or social message that usually relates to current events or personalities. |
| Isolation | separation or being set apart from others |
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