Social Studies Weekly Week 1: Getting Information (Vocabulary)

Cartographers

​mapmakers

civics

the study of the rights and duties of citizens

economics

the study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices

explorers

​People who travel to new and unfamiliar places in order to learn what these places are like and describe them with words, pictures, and maps.

geography

the study of the earth

government

​the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies

history

the study of the past

primary sources

​eyewitness accounts of history

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e.g.: letters, diaries, speeches, and interviews​

secondary sources

​records that explain or interpret primary sources

voyages

long journeys on water or into space