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S.S. vocabulary1
vocab for social studies (test on wednesday 9/28)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Belief in one god | Monotheism |
| People raising crops to sell | Commercial farmers |
| Person that flees place because of war | Refugee |
| Living in a city is called an (blank) area. | Urban |
| Study of people and their environment | Demography |
| Raising animals for food and/or wool | Livestock raising |
| Raised area of fairly level land | Plateau |
| Treeless area located in the Arctic | Tundra |
| Dry climate with little rainfall | Semiarid |
| Large mass of ice | Glacier |
| Small area of water extending into land | Bay |
| Obtaining food by killing animals or picking berries | Hunting and gathering |
| Useful material from nature | Natural resource |
| Country land | Rural |
| People raising crops to sell | Commercial farmers |
| Ability to read and write | Literacy |
| Making or producing goods to sell or trade | Economic activity |
| Hot and rainy climate year round | Tropical wet |
| Bowl-shaped mountain between two mountains | Basin |
| A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water | Strait |
| Land bordering the ocean (easier for shipping) | Coast |
| Becoming a desert | Desertification |