Social Studies Week 1 Vocabulary

What is the period of time about 12,000 years ago when Earth's temperature was colder, land was covered with ice, and prehistoric creatures existed, like the mammoth?

• Ice Period

• Hot Age

• Ice Age

• Dinosaur Age

What is the name for people who study the earth?

• Palentologists

• Geologists

• Geothermalists

• Archaeologists

What is something that makes life easier?

• convenience

• conference

• industry

• region

What is the system of government in which people control how their business is run, not the government?

• Free Expedition

• Socialism

• Free Enterprise

• Communism

What is the name for the imaginary line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres?

• equinox

• region

• basin

• equator

What is the name for the top 1/2 of the earth?

• northern lights

• northern hemisphere

• southern hemisphere

• top hemisphere

What is the name for the bottom 1/2 of the earth?

• southern hemisphere

• southern hospitality

• northern hemisphere

• equator

____________ is chicken and turkey raised for food.

• Timber

• Equator

• Poultry

• Polland

______________ is all kinds of businesses, like the cattle business.

• Industry

• Independence

• Region

• Timber

A ___________ is low land between mountains.

• region

• timber

• basin

• bowl