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S.S. vocabulary1
vocab for social studies (test on wednesday 9/28)
Question | Answer |
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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 |